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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
0.6.2 30-Nov-2009 1.44MB Boot Floppy Image fiwix-0.6.2.img.gz 583KB
0.6.2 30-Nov-2009 ISO9660 Live CDROM fiwix-livecd-0.6.2.iso.gz 21MB
0.6.2 30-Nov-2009 ISO9660 Mini Live CDROM fiwix-mini-livecd-0.6.2.iso.gz 1MB
0.6 20-Feb-2009 60MB Hard Disk Image fiwix60mb.img.gz 22MB

20-Feb-2009 README text file README 2KB

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-0.6.2.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440
  • Using QEMU emulator: 
    # qemu -fda fiwix-0.6.2.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-0.6.2.img -hda fiwix60mb.img -boot a

NOTE: Login as user root and password root.