[wplug] Barebones Linux

[Ben Beige]

If you either had

A: access to anotehr machine to pput the hard drive in orignaly

B: a CD-rom drive that you could use temporarily

Damn Small Linux will work on a 486 w/ NO HDD or at least did w/ the 486 
dx2 66 w/ 32 mb ram in my room...




At 01:35 PM 12/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
>On Tue, Dec 02, 2003 at 12:42:28PM -0500, Weber, Larry A wrote:
> > I need a distro of Linux that will run on an old 486 laptop (500 Meg HD, no
> > CD).  Command line only.  The only apps I really need are gcc, gdb, Perl,
> > and vi.  Ruby would be nice.  An ethernet port (pcmcia) is possible but not
> > desirable.  I used ZipSlack awhile ago in a similar situation but it 
> did not
> > come with gcc.  With only a floppy drive (I could add a zipdrive), adding
> > more apps will be difficult.
>
>Boot Debian from the floppy drive and load the pcmcia drivers and
>ethernet drivers, and install over the network, perhaps.  You could
>probably arrange a way to fetch the packages from the zip drive too.
>
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Ben Beige
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