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.

cheers :D

small linux may fit your needs. I think it's http://smalllinux.netpedia.net

Look for Tiny Linux, Coyote Linux...

HTH,

vfs

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.

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,

vfs

Thanks fellas.. I will look that up and if you can find more info on the networking please let me know..

:)

Sorry.. That URL didn't work for me. :(

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,

vfs

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?

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.