The poor man setup ... Do not worry you can still do many things. Here are the tricks:

The main problem when you have got a single floppy drive is space. Especially if you are willing to use those big fat packages like sshd.lrp or ipsec.lrp. But you can still use them in such an environnement. There are basically two approaches:

The first one is to remove useless components from the Bering floppy. Refer to the installation guide to learn how to do that.

But most of the time, for big applications, one floppy won't fit. You then have to setup your distro on two floppies, while still using a single drive. The strategy is as follow:

On the first floppy keep only the following files: linux, ldlinux.sys, syslinux.dpy, syslinux.cfg and initrd.lrp.

On the second floppy put all the remaining LEAF packages that you will need. You have a full floppy available! It can be 1440k, 1680k or 1723k formatted but it should be the same format for both floppies. 1680k is generally working without any problem and is a de facto LEAF standard.

Then edit the syslinux.cfg file of the first floppy. You will enter something like:

display syslinux.dpy
timeout 0
default linux initrd=initrd.lrp init=/linuxrc rw root=/dev/ram0 boot=/dev/fd0u1680:msdos diskwait=yes PKGPATH=/dev/fd0u1680
   LRP=root,etc,local,modules,iptables,pump,keyboard,shorwall,ulogd,dnscache,sshd,ipsec,weblet

Notice the diskwait=yes statement. Once the first floppy will be booted, Bering will ask you to enter the second floppy and will then load the *.lrp LEAF packages.

In this setup you can leave the second floppy on your drive if you want to make changes to your configuration files and backup the corresponding packages. What is on the first floppy generally do not need to be backed-up !