tomsrtbt
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tomsrtbt (pronounced: Tom's Root Boot) is a very small Linux distribution. It is short for "Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable." Its author, Tom Oehser, touts it as "The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk", containing many common Linux command-line tools useful for system recovery (Linux and other operating systems.) It also features drivers for many types of hardware, and network connectivity.
Key facts
- OS.name
- Tom's Root Boot (tomsrtbt)
- OS.screenshot
- 250px
- OS.caption
- Tom's Root Boot bootloader
- OS.developer
- Tom Oehser
- OS.family
- Linux (Unix-like)
- OS.working_state
- Defunct / Unmaintained
- OS.source_model
- Open source
- OS.latest_release_version
- 2.0.103
- OS.website
- http://www.toms.net/rb
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- Official website
- www.toms.net/rb
- Image
- Tomsrtbt-2.0.103.png
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- Tomsrtbt
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tomsrtbt (pronounced: Tom's Root Boot) is a very small Linux distribution. It is short for "Tom's floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootable." Its author, Tom Oehser, touts it as "The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk", containing many common Linux command-line tools useful for system recovery (Linux and other operating systems.) It also features drivers for many types of hardware, and network connectivity.
It could be created from within Linux or earlier versions of Windows running in MS-DOS mode, either by formatting a standard 1440 KiB (1.44 MB) floppy disk as a higher-density 1722 KiB (1.722 MB) disk and writing the tomsrtbt image to the disk, or by burning it as a bootable CD. It is capable of reading and writing the filesystems of many operating systems of its era, including ext2/ext3 (used in Linux), FAT (used by MS-DOS and Windows), NTFS (used in Windows NT, 2000, and XP) and Minix (used by the Minix operating system).