DLX is a full featured linux system running on Intel PC's. The special thing is that DLX comes with only one 3,5" floppydisk. DLX boots with a kernel >= 1.3.89 and starts a ramdisk image. In addition to that DLX also has a writeable ext2 filesystem of about 130 kb on the same disk to easily store configuration scripts (survives booting, is not on the ramdisk !). Further is DLX fully prepared for the paralell-port ZIP-Drive which allows you to mount 100 mb disks. You can even put large programs like perl5 on the disk because a special directory on the ZIP-disk is mounted as /usr/local/* ! These features make DLX the ideal disk for network trouble- shooting and/or FTPing from a university pc-lab if you do not have your own PC connected to the internet or your dialup is just too expensive/slow.
DLX is distributed in source only because it is almost sure that you have a different kernel setup than I have !
Click here to download:
Note: You have to be root to de-tar and to install DLX !
Nevertheless I've decided to release a 'Demodisk' which in fact is my personal DLX disk. If this disk fails to boot do not bother me and make yourself your own disk.
If you want to try the demodisk do a 'cat DLXdemo.gz | gzip -d | dd of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k'
or use 'rawrite' under DOS (see Slackware install guide).
Then boot from this disk. You can use 'ip-config [ip-address] [netmask]' to
setup your ethernet card, but do not forget to edit /etc/resolv.conf! You
can use (u)mountloop to mount the writeable and bootresistant filesystem
of the disk. For further info read the INSTALL guide.
The kernel of the demodisk has the following drivers compiled in.
Click here to download:
You can also obtain DLX from these FTP sites:
If you have any suggestions, improvements or just want to know any details I didn't mention in my INSTALL guide then write me a mail.
