[Cialug] Re: Minimal Distro

["Nathan E. Pralle" <npralle@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

If you can get network to it in any form, the Slackware network install 
over NFS works really easily.  7.1 should boot in 8MB.

Below 8MB, use the lowmem.i boot image and try using Slackware 3.3.  It 
still has the disk sets if you want the time and pain of copying them over.

NP

At 10:58 AM 5/30/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>You might also try Slackware, one of the old standards in the
>Linux distro business.  Last I looked they still offered a
>floppy install option, and if you pick packages carefully you
>can probably cram a workable installation into that hard drive,
>however performance will be abysmally bad with any recent kernel
>and 4M of RAM, if it works at all.


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