Working boot/root

[David Given <dg@cowlark.com>]

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I recently tried the 1.44MB bootable floppy image from the archive. It boots 
fine and presents me with a login prompt; unfortunately, when I type 'root' 
and press return, it seems to hang.

However, I don't know if this is the current boot/root. Is this a known or a 
fixed problem? If so, can anyone point me at a more recent image I could try?

I also have an unrelated question:

I have an ancient Toshiba laptop, with an 8086 processor an 1MB of memory. I'm 
currently using it as a serial terminal with DOS. I'd like to try something a 
little more sophisticated, and ELKS is a good choice. Unfortunately, it's 
floppy drive is duff and its 20MB hard drive is a laptop-sized MFM disc with 
an interface like nothing on Earth. As I don't want to remove DOS, as I have 
no way of getting it back on, I'd like to shrink the DOS partition to 5MB or 
so and use the rest for ELKS. This means I need (a) a FIPS equivalent that 
runs on an 8086 and (b) something that will boot an ELKS kernel from DOS. Any 
suggestions?

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