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I remember running Linux on a floppy disk back in the 90s. Used it as a NAT between the school network and my computer(s) in my room.

Pretty cool to see the functionality increase with portability. Although, floppy disk space is significantly less than a USB drive.

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Coyote Linux, maybe? I used it at home in the beginning of the 2000s.

There's a famous single floppy router distribution: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_Router_Project

LGR has a video on a PC-based appliance (a wireless access point) where the "firmware" source was a walled-off 3.5" drive with a floppy inside. That one ran DR-DOS however: https://youtu.be/DOkapxbW93g

I believe that was it but Coyote Linux sounds familiar too. I think it perhaps used that distribution.

I used Freesco ("Free Cisco") to do the same. It's hilarious these days to think about a power-hungry 486 running full time to do such a trivial task.

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