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To get BusyBox, you can optimize and compile your own source code, grab some pre-compiled binaries, or just go to your Linux distribution's update program and get it. Here you can see I decided to get the statically-linked BusyBox instead of the dynamically-linked version. If you read Tom Fawcett's "Linux Bootdisk HOWTO", it has a nice section on the /lib folder where he tells you how to use the "ldd" command to figure out what libraries you'll need. Let me save you some grief. If your linux floppy won't boot and drops out with kernel panic and a complaint about no "init", it means your copy of BusyBox is probably missing one of it's libraries. If you have room on your floppy, go with the statically-linked BusyBox. It's guaranteed to work. If you want to add more programs, you may be able to save a lot of disk space by switching to the dynamically-linked BusyBox.