[wplug] iso small distro

[Luquilla Hughes]

I thought you could do a Debian by disk(21) if you are real gung ho?
What about temporarily putting in a network card?


>From: Elwin Green <bekitemba at excite.com>
>Reply-To: wplug at wplug.org
>To: wplug at wplug.org
>Subject: [wplug] iso small distro
>Date: Fri, 7 Dec 2001 07:30:05 -0800 (PST)
>
>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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