################################################################################# # 2020/05/09 - PsychOS486 0.1.5 - Idea to replace Source Mages's system.tar.bz2 # ################################################################################# Played around (briefly) with a GNU/Linux distro called 'Source Mage' (i486 version) and noticed something interesting. I believe that it has just enough tools when booted for the installer to simply unpack a file within root called "system.tar.bz2" onto a partition. Maybe I could make a "system.tar.bz2" of Slackware 14.1 and replace Source Mage's version using ISO Master. There is also another possible way of doing this and that is to create PsychOS486 how I want it using Slackware 14.1 and then boot up any Live GNU/Linux distro with 'dd' installed and use: dd if=/dev/sda conv=sync,noerror bs=128k | gzip -c > PsychOS486.gz [Update 2020/05/14]: It just dawned on me while typing this that something similar could be applied if creating a FreeDOS-based version of PsychOS, aka "PsychDOS." I could tell people to run the Core version of TinyCore since it has 'dd', 'gunzip', and 'fdisk'. It would be nice to add a few more tools to it though such as 'cfdisk', 'bashmount', etc. then add the "/etc/issues" file to explain what to do or perhaps just have it boot an installation script thing.