[techtalk] Small Linux distributions?

[WolfRyder]

My husband stumbled across one on Fresh Meat a few weeks ago. I remember 
talking with him about it. He didn't d/load it as we didn't need it, but 
just go look around there and see if you can find it. The entire OS fits on 
a floppy.
Carol

At 11:57 PM 4/29/01 +1000, Neale Green wrote:
>Could anyone advise me of, and/or point me in the direction of (URL) some
>preferred Linux distributions for operations on systems with limited
>resources, please?
>
>I'm currently working with a slightly modified old 486 DX2/50 laptop with 24
>MB memory, 200 MB disk, and no CD-ROM, trying to get a mobile Linux box for
>a project. The lack of Laptop means that I need to either do a Floppy
>install ( difficult with the size of today's distributions ), or download
>one of the smaller distributions onto the disk (I have a boot disk which
>will let me get a MS Network connection via a PCMCIA Ethernet card).
>
>I'm running RedHat on my other Linux boxes, but I can't find any way to
>download what I need to the laptop to install RedHat ( can't point to a
>network drive for the install process, RedHat wants a local dev address ).
>
>Anyway, I'm hoping that there are distributions out there that others have
>found which will run in the smaller, slower boxes a bit better (preferably
>with a DOS executable kickoff), could anyone suggest any please?
>
>Any suggestions and/or assistance would be gratefully accepted.
>
>Thanking you in anticipation.
>
>Regards,
>
>Neale
>
>
>
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