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In the GNU/Fiwix 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. Inside there is a README file with the instructions about how to work with it.

Version Date Description Filename Size
0.4.0 28-Nov-2007 1.44MB Boot Floppy Image fiwix-0.4.0.img.gz 474KB
0.3.3 30-Jul-2007 1.44MB Boot Floppy Image fiwix-0.3.3.img.gz 464KB
1.3b 30-Jul-2007 60MB Hard Disk Image fiwix60mb.img.gz 21MB

02-May-2007 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 you can test it in several different ways:

  • Real floppy disk: 
    # dd if=fiwix-0.4.0.img of=/dev/fd0 bs=1k count=1440
  • Using QEMU emulator: 
    # qemu -fda fiwix-0.4.0.img -boot a -m 8
  • 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 paramater root=/dev/fd0 by root=/dev/hda1 in the GRUB menu. 
    # qemu -fda fiwix-0.4.0.img -hda fiwix60mb.img -boot a -m 32

NOTE: To login the user must be root and password root.