tomsrtbt (pronounced: Tom s Root Boot) is a very small Linux distribution—MiniLinux. It is short for Tom s floppy which has a root filesystem and is also bootstrap (bootfloppy). The author touts it as The most GNU/Linux on one floppy disk , containing many common Linux commands useful for system recovery (Linux and other operating systems) and for creating Linux machines without a hard disk. It also features drivers for many types of hardware, and network connectivity.

It can be created from within Microsoft Windows running in MS-DOS mode or Linux, by formatting a standard 1.44MB floppy disk as a higher density 1.72MB disk, and writing its image to the disk. It is capable of reading and writing the filesystems of many operating systems, including ext2 (used in Linux), File Allocation Table (used by DOS and some versions of Windows), NTFS (used in Windows NT, Windows 2000, and Windows XP), and Minix (used by the Minix operating system).

Many of the utilities on tomsrtbt are written in the Lua programming language.

=See also=

*Comparison of Linux distributions

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