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05-27-2002, 01:55 PM
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Registered: May 2002
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Small Distro
Can anyone tell me if there is a small distro That I can put on an old laptop (IBM L40 SX) that has 2 megs of ram and a 60 M HD.?
I would like to network this little machine to the other redhat machine that I have. Not sure how I would do it.. as the laptop has no nic , only a serial and parallel port. Any Ideas would be greatly appreciated.
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05-27-2002, 02:12 PM
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Registered: Apr 2002
Location: Brazil
Distribution: Slackware
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small linux may fit your needs. I think it's http://smalllinux.netpedia.net
Look for Tiny Linux, Coyote Linux...
HTH,
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05-27-2002, 02:14 PM
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Distribution: Gentoo
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A base install of Debian will fit (install from floppy)
See: http://www.tldp.org/HOWTO/mini/PLIP.html
Or you can use SLIP, but I can't find documentation for that at the moment. |
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05-27-2002, 02:25 PM
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I don't think so. Today's distros use more than 4megs to uncompress thing, so he'll need kernel 2.0.*. If so, it's best to use a small distro designed for this purpose.
About this, you can see the 4megs-Laptop-HOWTO (or something liek this) at www.linuxdoc.org
HTH,
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05-27-2002, 02:42 PM
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Registered: May 2002
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Thanks fellas.. I will look that up and if you can find more info on the networking please let me know..
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05-27-2002, 02:46 PM
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Sorry.. That URL didn't work for me.  |
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05-27-2002, 02:53 PM
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BE more persistent man! 
Google's here for that...
http://www.superant.com/smalllinux/
Looks like the old URL is really broken, but the above works.
HTH,
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05-28-2002, 11:56 AM
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I cant seem to get Smalllinux to run on my laptop. The laptop is a ps/2 does that make a difference? I load the boot disk and everything seems okay,.. Its asks for the root disk and whammo crashes on me.. Any suggestions anyone?
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05-28-2002, 12:32 PM
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Registered: Dec 2001
Location: chicago, IL
Distribution: Gentoo 1.4_rc1
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You can try Peanut Linux OS. Its a pretty good distro and is about 150Megs in size only so it should be small enough for you.
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