PC crashed and you need a bootdisk? ( -Version)

Which document is hiding behind PROTOC~7.DOC ?

Connection between two PC's wanted, without changing settings at the PC's, without installation of software?

New: SPB-Linux 2 ( from USB memory stick or USB compact flash reader; kernel 2.4.20; image viewer; browser...)

 SPB-Linux can help:

SPB-Linux consists of a bootable floppy disk with the Midnight Commander as user interface (like Norton Commander) and allows to access files under their long names; the default settings support IDE-harddisks with FAT or FAT32 partitions (i.e. Windows 95 und 98) and ATAPI CD-drives. Linux EXT2 partitions may be mounted and readonly access to Windows NT4 NTFS partitions is possible.

Additionally two PC's running SPB-Linux may be connected by a serial or parallel nullmodem cable or by ethernet (with Ne2000 compatible ISA, PCI or PCMCIA network cards). The files of the remote PC may be accessed by the FTP-client integrated in the Midnight Commander. (And the remote PC may be accessed by telnet.)

"Dial-in FTP-Server": Any PC can dial into the PC running SPB-Linux as if the the SPB-Linux PC were a modem, if both PC's are connected by a serial nullmodem cable. And the files at the SPB-Linux PC may be accessed by FTP.

If a network connection exists (nullmodem cable or ethernet), the SPB-Linux PC can access shared folders in the Windows or Linux NFS network.

All this fits on one or two floppy disks and is like Linux :-) free. The SPB-Linux system runs in RAM (Ramdisk) and the floppy disk is only required during the boot process; the harddisk is not required by the system.

Running SPB-Linux it is possible to format 1.68 MB DMF floppy disks, allowing to put additional files on the bootdisk.

Required hardware: IBM compatible PC with 386 DX CPU and 16MB RAM.

Installation:

a) basic functions: extract the file spblinux.zip into an empty folder and run install.bat (with DOS/Windows) or run createbootdisk (with Linux).

b) addons (networking and other additions): extract the bz2-files (addons) you want to use from addons.zip and copy them to the bootdisk or to the second disk.

Download of version 1.0.1: spblinux.zip, addons.zip; (german version: spblinux.zip);
second server: spblinux.zip, addons.zip;

Further information: readme.1st, readme.txt, addons.en.txt, changes.txt, FAQ.

SPB-Linux has been designed in Saint Petersburg, Russia (and cyrillic texts may be displayed).

    Christian Ostheimer, osth@freesurf.ch (feedback to SPB-Linux is appreciated)