<s>
tomsrtbt	B-Language
(	O
pronounced	O
:	O
Tom	O
's	O
Root	O
Boot	O
)	O
is	O
a	O
very	O
small	O
Linux	B-Application
distribution	I-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
short	O
for	O
"	O
Tom	O
's	O
floppy	B-Device
which	O
has	O
a	O
root	O
filesystem	B-Application
and	O
is	O
also	O
bootable.	O
"	O
</s>
<s>
Its	O
author	O
,	O
Tom	O
Oehser	O
,	O
touts	O
it	O
as	O
"	O
The	O
most	O
GNU/Linux	B-Application
on	O
one	O
floppy	B-Device
disk	I-Device
"	O
,	O
containing	O
many	O
common	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
command-line	O
tools	O
useful	O
for	O
system	O
recovery	O
(	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
and	O
other	O
operating	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
.	O
)	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
could	O
be	O
created	O
from	O
within	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
or	O
earlier	O
versions	O
of	O
Windows	O
running	O
in	O
MS-DOS	O
mode	O
,	O
either	O
by	O
formatting	O
a	O
standard	O
1.44MB	O
floppy	B-Device
disk	I-Device
as	O
a	O
higher	B-Device
density	I-Device
1.722MB	I-Device
disk	I-Device
and	O
writing	O
the	O
tomsrtbt	B-Language
image	O
to	O
the	O
disk	O
,	O
or	O
by	O
burning	O
it	O
as	O
a	O
bootable	B-Operating_System
CD	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
It	O
is	O
capable	O
of	O
reading	O
and	O
writing	O
the	O
filesystems	B-Application
of	O
many	O
operating	B-General_Concept
systems	I-General_Concept
of	O
its	O
era	O
,	O
including	O
ext2/ext3	O
(	O
used	O
in	O
Linux	B-Operating_System
)	O
,	O
FAT	B-Application
(	O
used	O
by	O
DOS	B-Device
and	O
Windows	O
)	O
,	O
NTFS	B-Application
(	O
used	O
in	O
Windows	B-Device
NT	I-Device
,	O
2000	B-Application
,	O
and	O
XP	B-Application
)	O
and	O
Minix	B-Operating_System
(	O
used	O
by	O
the	O
Minix	B-Operating_System
operating	B-General_Concept
system	I-General_Concept
)	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
Windows	B-Device
NT	I-Device
and	O
most	O
later	O
versions	O
of	O
Windows	O
,	O
including	O
2000	B-Application
,	O
XP	B-Application
,	O
and	O
Vista	O
,	O
cannot	O
create	O
a	O
tomsrtbt	B-Language
floppy	B-Device
as	O
their	O
floppy	B-Device
driver	O
does	O
not	O
allow	O
the	O
extended	O
format	O
.	O
</s>
<s>
A	O
few	O
of	O
the	O
utilities	O
on	O
tomsrtbt	B-Language
are	O
written	O
in	O
the	O
Lua	B-Language
programming	I-Language
language	I-Language
,	O
and	O
many	O
more	O
use	O
BusyBox	B-Application
.	O
</s>
<s>
Space	O
saving	O
compiler	O
options	O
were	O
used	O
throughout	O
,	O
the	O
kernel	B-Operating_System
was	O
patched	O
to	O
support	O
loading	O
an	O
image	O
compressed	O
with	O
Bzip2	B-Application
,	O
and	O
in	O
many	O
cases	O
older	O
or	O
alternate	O
versions	O
of	O
programs	O
were	O
selected	O
due	O
to	O
their	O
smaller	O
size	O
.	O
</s>
