Difficulty: What can you fit onto a 1.2MB 5.25" disk?
There's a retrobattlestations contest to "boot from a 5.25" floppy disk" coming up this week, so I've been down in the basement grabbing disks, and coming up all DOS..
There's a retrobattlestations contest to "boot from a 5.25" floppy disk" coming up this week, so I've been down in the basement grabbing disks, and coming up all DOS..
Full size: 1440KiB / 1.44MiB Kernel size: 632KiB Tools: 552KiB Free space left (du -h): 272KiB
So... it does look to me like the kernel and tools would fit 1.2MB too.
But I don't think it is what you want. For sane set of tools it was a little bit over 1MB. Mine is bigger as I still need more tools for fixing/experimenting on live system (I'm using shell scripts for my application). In the end I will be removing more and more tools.