Tomukas is a small linux mini-distribution, featuring busybox, tinylogin, mc, joe, ssh, X-window with fvwm1 and... err... that's about it. WARNING: it is not for beginners. It works for me, it may work for you... but it may not. Current version is 0.2 (codename "Princi") - i.e. second release. Being library-compatible with debian potato, you can install new programs by copying them from your debian potato distribution, or by unpacking *.deb packages (ar x *.deb; tar xvzf data.tar.gz) Installation: Use your skills :-) To use booting from MSDOS partition via loadlin: - boot MSDOS, partition harddisk, create MSDOS and linux partitions, eventually swap partition - prepare loadlin.exe, edit linux.bat - boot from your favourite linux boot floppy (I am using debian rescue floppy) - create second extended filesystem on linux partitions - copy somehow princi.tgz to your linux partition and untar it from the root directory (you need probably staticly linked tar to do this) split(1) and cat(1) are your friends - modify /etc/fstab and /etc/rcS - compile your own kernel and modules and transfer them, modules to /lib/modules/kernelversion/, kernel to the MSDOS partition as zimage - reboot - run linux.bat - log in as root, password is empty (just press enter) - type depmod -a - change root password - modify /etc/XF86Config - along the way interactively repair all the bugs you encounter :-) - remove files you consider unnecessary (such as ssh, mc....) To boot via lilo (untested): - do as above, but copy lilo executable to /sbin/lilo and prepare lilo.conf - boot with rescue disc, but specify root filesystem to be your tomukas partition - run lilo