Operating system on floppy?

[mastershriz]

I was recently discussing with an old friend of mine, who obtained an operating system from an old teacher of mine. This OS ran on a single floppy disk. Without the un-necessary things that come with windows, it even had a media player. I have yet to see this with my own eyes, nor have I heard anything about it. My question is this, could it be possible? Even if so, has anyone seen such a thing exist?

Shrap

[Canuck]

It's definetely possible and most likely it's just a stripped down linux or something. There are multiple versions of linux that you can run off of floppies or cd's.

www.knoppix.net
www.slackware.com
www.toms.net/rb/
www.coyotelinux.com/
http://thecommandline.org/projects/floppy.html

[luck777jojo]

actually it could also be DOS...... the win98 startup disk actually contains DOS and that's just 1 floppy

[[oC]pingu]

could be windows 3.1

in my school, in computer servicing class, we had to take a windows 3.1 machine and install windows 2000 on it, and both came off of floppy drives (win2000 was like 10 floppys though)

[Canuck]

Yeah, I only mentioned linux because it has a lot more features then dos and win 3.1 is basically obsolete.

[mastershriz]

Still from what the guy explained to me, is that it looked, acted and sounded like a very well written XP like interface. Thanks for the responses guys, i almost gave up on the post.

[Phree_Radical]

http://www.menuetos.org/

[ClouD']

Gotta say though.. the media player must have sucked if it was among a whole OS on one floppy disk heh heh - and I thought WMP was bad ^^;;