Really small linux os needed

[uk_viper]

one that can be installed onto a hard disk, needs to be like one of these 5mb os sizes prefably

 

[wesley]

with GUI?

 

[uk_viper]

no gui

 

[BillytheImpaler]

What do you need it to do? At that size it'll likely be a special-purpose distro.

 

[daven1986]

damn small linux? but i think it is about 50mb

 

[riddlermarc]

It totally depends on what you want to do?

http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Mini_Distributions/

http://tinylinux.sourceforge.net/:

TinyLinux is a small Linux Distribution for i386 derived from SuSE 6.4. In the base version it just contains the things which are necessary to run Linux. Therefore the base package is rather small and requires approx. 7MB.

Doesn't seem it's an active distro though

http://www.toms.net/rb/:

1) tomsrtbt is

"The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk"

for:

rescue recovery panic & emergencies

tools to keep in your shirt pockets

whenever you can't use a hard drive

Tomsrtbt stands for:

"Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable."
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2) Design goals

as much stuff as possible on 1 floppy disk

keep it self contained, build under itself

try to make it behave like a normal system

rescue and recovery functions get priority

 

[Dfhaii]

If you want something really small and specialised then LFS is the way to go.