Downloads

In the floppy image you will find a semi-functional kernel that allows the interaction with some basic UNIX/Linux tools. Due to lack of space (1.44MB) I use the BusyBox utility. This little program comes with only one binary which have a lot of basic UNIX/Linux commands.

For all the people who wants a better environment to play and to experiment with this kernel, I have prepared a live-filesystem of about 60MB. It comes with a README file with the instructions about how to work with it.

Another way to test this kernel is burning one of the live CDROM images you can download from here.

Version	Date	Description	Filename	Size
0.6.3	16-Apr-2010	1.44MB Boot Floppy Image	fiwix-0.6.3.img.gz	585KB
0.6.3	16-Apr-2010	ISO9660 Live CDROM	fiwix-livecd-0.6.3.iso.gz	20MB
0.6.3	16-Apr-2010	ISO9660 Mini Live CDROM	fiwix-mini-livecd-0.6.3.iso.gz	1MB
0.6	20-Feb-2009	60MB Hard Disk Image	fiwix60mb.img.gz	22MB
	20-Feb-2009	README text file	README	2KB

MD5 checksum

2e64abc11f6f5443bc2f00d466fbcd41 fiwix-0.6.3.img.gz
9bcee8654b4a7c358b156f61b72f2893 fiwix-livecd-0.6.3.iso.gz
08f211ebc7c9f45e835f19381bad867f fiwix-mini-livecd-0.6.3.iso.gz
3bfe777051ea9968fd13e18098a4850b fiwix60mb.img.gz


GNU/Fiwix Operating System DIN A1 sized white poster	GNU/Fiwix White Poster	3.5MB
GNU/Fiwix Operating System DIN A1 sized black poster	GNU/Fiwix Black Poster	3.5MB
GNU applications used in the project	ftp://ftp.fibranet.com/pub/Fiwix/gnu

Uncompress first the floppy image using the gzip -d command, and then start testing it in several different ways:

• Using a floppy disk:

  # dd if=fiwix-0.6.3.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440
            

• Using QEMU emulator:

  # qemu -fda fiwix-0.6.3.img -boot a
            

• Using QEMU emulator with the 60MB hard disk image:
  If you want to use the hard disk image as the root filesystem, you'll have to change the kernel parameter root=/dev/fd0 by root=/dev/hda1 in the GRUB menu.

  # qemu -fda fiwix-0.6.3.img -hda fiwix60mb.img -boot a
            

NOTE: Login as user root and password root.