[wplug] iso small distro

Phil Walther Jr. philjr at attglobal.net
Fri Dec 7 10:41:47 EST 2001


I would even possibly look for some 30 pin sims somewhere, assuming that's
the memory the machine needs.  You could probably max that machine out with
ram, if you can find it.

-----Original Message-----
From: wplug-admin at wplug.org [mailto:wplug-admin at wplug.org]On Behalf Of
Elwin Green
Sent: Friday, December 07, 2001 10:30 AM
To: wplug at wplug.org
Subject: [wplug] iso small distro


Greetings all-

I have inherited a dinosaur, and want to make it a pet.

The machine is a 386/33 with 4MB RAM, 2 SCSI drives (200 MB each). and a 3.5
floppy drive (NO CD-ROM). It has Windows for Workgroups 3.11 on it, and I'd
like to make it a pure Linux box, for learning purposes.

I've been looking for a small distro, but most of the ones I've found
require 8MB RAM, because they use ramdisks. Others either don't support
SCSI, or require a CD-ROM. I did find one - Martin's Mandrake 6 - which I
got up and running, but I couldn't find a text editor there (if anyone has
used it, did I overlook something?).

Can anyone recommend a distro that I can download to floppy and install to
hard drive, that supports SCSI, and that will work and play with 4MB RAM? (X
Windows neither necessary nor desired)

Thanks!

Elwin G.





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