OS on a Floppy

MenuetOS is a nifty little Operating System that runs on a floppy disk. Written entirely in x86 Assembly language, it supports a GUI and even comes with a web and MP3 server!

The list of features includes:

pre-emptive multitasking, multithreading, ring-3 protection
graphical UI with 16 M colours up to 1280×1024
faster programming language than in Win, Linux, ..
ide: editor/compiler for assembly kernel and applications
kernel and application sources included (GPL)
TCP/IP stack with PPP & Ethernet drivers
http/mp3/email servers, 3D maze
free-form, skinnable application windows
hard real-time data fetch
fits in a single floppy !

There are many small little apps that you can also download to make this OS a little more fun!

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11 Responses to “OS on a Floppy”

moi said on March 18th, 2006 at 10:17 am
zut
Shawn Quinn said on March 24th, 2006 at 9:22 pm
how do transfer the .iso download to a floppy in such a way that it fits and boots.
Shawn Quinn said on March 24th, 2006 at 9:25 pm
I bet the settings can be configured and the disk can be locked….sweet. Please send the instructions to shawn-quinn@canada.com; include any links that might be helpful if you can. Thank you.
Richy said on June 16th, 2006 at 10:11 am
I have found that using the “rawwrite” program to write the os to a floppy did not work! It got to 26% and stopped. I got some error and it never finished. If it worked It would have been great!
I8YOPI~NES said on July 25th, 2006 at 3:15 am
ur gay it works, use magiciso
andy said on November 14th, 2006 at 12:50 am
well use rawwrite

then go to porperties of floppy drive
then run check for errors
after then
the floppy will run OS

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i tried it
david said on November 24th, 2007 at 1:33 pm
When I try to boot the MenuetOS
it allways writes to the screen
“Long mode unaviable” and the boot
process stops.Whats the problem?
SteLeeds said on December 2nd, 2007 at 6:58 am
Long mode unavailable error shows when you boot the 64bit version of menuetOS on a PC with a 32bit processor. Simply download the latest 32bit version and write the image to floppy disk or cd as described above. 32bit version is not as up to date as the 64bit one but it works and is free.
alan said on December 19th, 2007 at 6:45 am
i have extract and copy the iso to floppy,but is not enaugh space,maybe it couses by the formated floppy in windows…

so any formated software that smaller than windows have?
tank’s
jimmy said on December 31st, 2007 at 9:19 pm
I have Intel CPU 1.20 GHz ,1 GB RAM and AMI BIOS.I tried to boot MenuetOS32 but after loading from floppy the system “freezes down”.
sin said on January 31st, 2008 at 6:13 am
i dont know what it is i should install it.

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