How much luck has anyone had installing linux on a tecra 500cs (or similar) laptop? What is a good way to go about it?

I don't know if you are still interested, but I figured that I would post this in case anyone else may want this information. I have finally had a lot of success in running Mandrake Linux 9.2 on the Toshiba Tecra 500CS. I tried Peanut Linux, Slackware, SuSE, Damnsmalllinux, and finally Mandrake. The main problem was how to get the installation process going without consuming too much of the hardrive. I was able to get Damnsmalllinux, but was unable to get additional servers running without some flakiness (SSH, SAMBA, VNC) - I could be more specific if anyone is interested.

Let me cut to the chase:
To get Mandrake running, I did a network install from NFS (Since I only have 64MB RAM, ftp was not an option). I created the following partition sizes: / 838; /home 247.73; swap 272.5. I run SAMBA, SSH, VNC. I also run Mozilla Firebird as the browser. I use IceWM as the desktop. I actually runs pretty well. If anyone is interested I will post more, but for now my kids want me to build them a play house - gtg.

Kendolin,
If you still have the specifics, I'm interested. Have the same computer and release here. Was running it for a while, but it just seemed to be very slow, so I searched for other distros. Anything that would boot just didn't have the functionality I wanted to get out of this old machine. I'm ready to go back to Mandrake 9.2, but figured I'd get some pointers from you to see if I can get better performance than I had before...

Thanks much...

Ray