FLOPPINUX
An Embedded 🐧Linux on a Single 💾Floppy
2025 Edition (v0.3.1)
December 21, 2025 | back to home
FLOPPINUX was released in 2021. After four years people find it helpful. Because of that I decided to revisit FLOPPINUX in 2025 and make updated tutorial. This brings bunch of updates like latest kernel and persistent storage.
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Main Project Goals
Think of this as Linux From Scratch but for making single floppy distribution.
It is meant to be a full workshop (tutorial) that you can follow easily and modify it to your needs. It is a learning exercise. Some base Linux knowledge is needed.
The final distribution is very simple and consists only of minimum of tools and hardware support. As a user you will be able to boot any PC with a floppy drive to a Linux terminal, edit files, and create simple scripts. There is 264KB of space left for your newly created files.
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