[EvanAnderson]

This is pretty neat. I remember making floppy-based "distributions" back in '98 to do utility tasks (imaging Windows PCs over UDP broadcast being one I spent a long time on). So many memories of "make bzimage", hanging init scripts, reboots. So many reboots.

Charmingly, the "modern" process doesn't seem wholly dissimilar. I would echo the comments of one of the sibling comments here: Targeting this to RPi would be fun and educational. Maybe I'll give it a try.

[reactordev]

That was like me in ‘98 trying to install Mandrake linux over NetBIOS with a public sftp over ISDN line… one bad block or wrong checksum stalled the whole install. Start over again. Eventually a friend of mine was kind enough to store the sftp contents to a CD as I had already parted my drive. Thankfully we had CD burners but was limited to 2x write speed due to checksum verification failures.