I'm looking for a boot floppy distribution that comes with a C compiler (preferably gcc). It's for a diskless PC that i want to run some software on that only comes in source. If there is another way of running the software witout the need of a compiler, that would also help.

I seriously doubt whether any distro *with* a C compiler would fit into a floppy...

However I might be wrong.

Thanks for the reply. Would it be possible to fit make then? Or like I said before if there is a way to compile the software seperately and then run it on the machine, I would rather do that.

OK, I have given up on the boot floppy idea, the only problem is that the PC cannot boot from the cdrom drive, and I can't find a bios update for it.

Are there boot floppies that could mimmick the boot sequence of the disc in the cdrom drive and allow me to boot a live cd distribution?

hey minimalist,

i doubt that i can help any, but I am having the same problems (I think). I don't understand where exactly your dificulty lies. Are you trying to boot a system without a harddrive. If so I think you are sol with regards to having a compiler on the floppy. I would be happy with just a compiler on a floppy. Which to the best of my knowledge is available from muLinux, but then you get into superformatting your floppies (can be problematic if running XP).

You'll have to excuse my ignorance, but are you trying to boot from a floppy with a compiler, then write compiled code back to the floppy? If so, that is impressive. All I'm trying to do is get a compiler to fit on a (regular) floppy so I can have a compiler on a system that only has a floppy currently.

Does you computer have USB support? I do belive that most systems can boot off a network drive like you are doing and then it will load the usb mem drive. You can then just have one compiler on a flash drive an be able to stick it into any one of your nodes for compiling. Usb mem is way cheap now and you can get 256mb or less for pretty cheap.