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Hello,
I have an Epson Equity LT computer with no current OS which I plan to put ELKS on. I first need to partition the hard drive (20Mb) using fdisk and therefore set up freedos. The floppy drive I have in the computer is a 1.4Mb, but the VERY old Bios only supports 720Kb, so I'm limited to that size images. I tried the ripcord version, but the computer stalls when it begins to install. Is there any good images and/or distributions that would fit on this size disk?

Its not just the floppy drive that needs to be 720kb it the diskettes as well. 1.44MB disks have 2 holes and the 720kb version 1. If you cannot locate any 720kb diskettes then you can cover the Non-shutter hole with black tape and reformat to 720kb.
Programs such as Disk Copy Pro for DOS & WinImage will write a bootdisk image to almost any size of floppy provided it is the correct diskette to start with.
My PowerLoad Bootdisk Project (Link above) has Disk Images of most of the major DOS versions from MS/PC-DOS 3x on-wards, all of which can be extracted onto 720kb disks.
I do not have a FreeDOS image available, but I have had a look at the image @
http://www.fdos.org/ripcord/beta9rc3/fdbootcd.img
Which is saved as a 1.44MB Image file, However since the files only take up 355kb of space this can be converted to a 720kb Image with WinImage for example. Just click on Image, then Change Format and click the 720kb box, the image will then be saved to write to a suitable diskette.

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