w84death/floppinux — reverse-engineered prompt

I want you to build this into a tiny but real Linux distro that fits on a single 1.44MB floppy image. The goal is that I can boot it in an emulator, and ideally on old 32 bit x86 hardware too, and land in a working terminal instead of just a toy boot screen.

Please follow the project docs and tutorial that are already in the repo, and make the whole thing actually build from source. It should support very low end machines, around 486 class CPUs with about 20MB of RAM, include a basic text editor plus simple file tools, and keep a small amount of persistent storage so files survive reboots. I also want it to feel hackable, so don’t hide the build steps or make it overly magical.

If anything is unclear, check the workshop article and current docs online. When you’re done, I want a clean build flow, a bootable floppy image, and a quick way to test that it really drops into a usable Linux shell.