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Operating Systems Linux Only the terminal(command screen) no GUI, for Windows XP ??? Post 302773815 by Corona688 on Thursday 28th of February 2013 05:49:52 PM
Old 02-28-2013
If you want something really really small, you could always try busybox for windows. It's a 600K .exe file requiring no installation. Run 'busybox bash' and you're in a shell with a fairly full suite of UNIX commands:

Code:
Microsoft Windows XP [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.

C:\Documents and Settings\User> busybox.exe
BusyBox v1.19.1_18_0-306-geb28f73.git (2011-01-16 17:56:02 ICT) multi-call binar
y.
Copyright (C) 1998-2009 Erik Andersen, Rob Landley, Denys Vlasenko
and others. Licensed under GPLv2.
See source distribution for full notice.

Usage: busybox [function] [arguments]...
   or: busybox --list[-full]
   or: function [arguments]...

        BusyBox is a multi-call binary that combines many common Unix
        utilities into a single executable.  Most people will create a
        link to busybox for each function they wish to use and BusyBox
        will act like whatever it was invoked as.

Currently defined functions:
        [, [[, ar, ash, awk, base64, basename, bash, bbconfig, bunzip2, bzcat,
        bzip2, cal, cat, catv, cksum, cmp, comm, cp, cpio, cut, date, dc, dd,
        diff, dirname, dos2unix, echo, ed, egrep, env, expand, expr, false,
        fgrep, find, fold, getopt, grep, gunzip, gzip, hd, head, hexdump, kill,
        killall, length, ls, lzcat, lzma, lzop, lzopcat, md5sum, mkdir, mv, od,
        pgrep, pidof, printenv, printf, ps, pwd, rm, rmdir, rpm2cpio, sed, seq,
        sh, sha1sum, sha256sum, sha512sum, sleep, sort, split, strings, sum,
        tac, tail, tar, tee, test, touch, tr, true, uncompress, unexpand, uniq,
        unix2dos, unlzma, unlzop, unxz, unzip, usleep, uudecode, uuencode, vi,
        wc, wget, which, whoami, xargs, xz, xzcat, yes, zcat


C:\Documents and Settings\User>busybox.exe bash
$ for X in 1 2 3 ; do echo $X ; done
1
2
3

$ echo "Asdf" | sed 's/s/huh/g'
Ahuhdf

$ exit

C:\Documents and Settings\User>

This is not truly Linux, though, just a shell and a big mess of utilities. You don't get device files, case-sensitive filenames, or anything else that's a function of the Linux kernel.

Why not try a Linux livecd? You can get a complete Linux environment that boots from DVD, no need to install anything on your computer. Knoppix is a well-known one. You may need to hit F9 or F12 on boot to choose which device to boot from.

You can also get LiveUSB's -- Linux which boots from a USB flash drive.
Last edited by Corona688; 02-28-2013 at 06:57 PM..
 

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kernel-install

KERNEL-INSTALL(8)						  kernel-install						 KERNEL-INSTALL(8)

NAME

       kernel-install - Add and remove kernel and initramfs images to and from /boot

SYNOPSIS

       kernel-install COMMAND KERNEL-VERSION [KERNEL-IMAGE]

DESCRIPTION

       kernel-install is used to install and remove kernel and initramfs images to and from /boot.

       kernel-install will execute the files located in the directory /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/ and the local administration directory
       /etc/kernel/install.d/. All files are collectively sorted and executed in lexical order, regardless of the directory in which they live.
       However, files with identical filenames replace each other. Files in /etc/kernel/install.d/ take precedence over files with the same name
       in /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/. This can be used to override a system-supplied executables with a local file if needed; a symbolic link in
       /etc/kernel/install.d/ with the same name as an executable in /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/, pointing to /dev/null, disables the executable
       entirely. Executables must have the extension ".install"; other extensions are ignored.

COMMANDS

       The following commands are understood:

       add KERNEL-VERSION KERNEL-IMAGE
	   kernel-install creates the directory /boot/MACHINE-ID/KERNEL-VERSION/ and calls every executable /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/*.install
	   and /etc/kernel/install.d/*.install with the arguments

	       add KERNEL-VERSION /boot/MACHINE-ID/KERNEL-VERSION/

	   The kernel-install plugin 50-depmod.install runs depmod for the KERNEL-VERSION.

	   The kernel-install plugin 90-loaderentry.install copies KERNEL-IMAGE to /boot/MACHINE-ID/KERNEL-VERSION/linux. It also creates a boot
	   loader entry according to the boot loader specification in /boot/loader/entries/MACHINE-ID-KERNEL-VERSION.conf. The title of the entry
	   is the PRETTY_NAME parameter specified in /etc/os-release, or "Linux KERNEL-VERSION", if unset. If the file initrd is found next to the
	   linux file, the initrd will be added to the configuration.

       remove KERNEL-VERSION
	   Calls every executable /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/*.install and /etc/kernel/install.d/*.install with the arguments

	       remove KERNEL-VERSION /boot/MACHINE-ID/KERNEL-VERSION/

	   kernel-install removes the entire directory /boot/MACHINE-ID/KERNEL-VERSION/ afterwards.

	   The kernel-install plugin 90-loaderentry.install removes the file /boot/loader/entries/MACHINE-ID-KERNEL-VERSION.conf.

EXIT STATUS

       If every executable returns with 0, 0 is returned, a non-zero failure code otherwise.

FILES

       /usr/lib/kernel/install.d/*.install /etc/kernel/install.d/*.install
	   Drop-in files which are executed by kernel-install.

       /etc/kernel/cmdline /proc/cmdline
	   The content of the file /etc/kernel/cmdline specifies the kernel command line to use. If that file does not exist, /proc/cmdline is
	   used.

       /etc/machine-id
	   The content of the file specifies the machine identification MACHINE-ID.

       /etc/os-release
	   The content of the file specifies the operating system title PRETTY_NAME.

SEE ALSO

       machine-id(5), os-release(5), Boot loader specification[1]

NOTES

	1. Boot loader specification
	   http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Specifications/BootLoaderSpec

systemd 208															 KERNEL-INSTALL(8)
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