[Sheflug] a tiny linux?

[Guennadi Liakhovetski <nospam [at] ragingbull.com>]

Hi

Does anyone know of a small (~floppy size, but not necessarily) linux
distro (like tomsrtbt, etc.), that could be run from a running DOS session
'hot' - using loadlin, without booting with a diskette or a CD? I tried a
tomsrtbt image - it didn't work for some reason... Why I want that? We've
got a number of NT machines at the department, their admins are cautious
(in case one of them reads this:-)) - they disabled booting from floppies
/ CD-ROMs. BIOS is password-protected. BUT - they left a hole (do you hear
me?:-) - you can boot into a DOS session from the network (NOVELL). Then -
again - hard drive is not accessible, nor is CD-ROM, all you've got is a
floppy and a smallish network share. So, the only hole is - put loadlin
and a kernel + plus all other required stuff on your Netware share and run
loadlin *kernel*... Well, then, I presume, you'll instantly gain access to
all the hardware, will be able to reformat the HD, etc., but, honestly,
that's not my purpose - I just want to 1) prove it's possible; 2) run ls
-lR > ls-lR on my ZIP:-)

Thanks
Guennadi
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Dr. Guennadi V. Liakhovetski
Department of Applied Mathematics
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, U.K.
email: g.liakhovetski [at] sheffield.ac.uk


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