Greetings friends!

I'm looking for suggestions on a distro for this particular situation.

I'm not a total linux newb, but almost.

I'm certainly not qualified to compile my own distro from source, and I'm not really getting where I want to go by doing a stripped custom install of Slackware ( the usual distro i use ) because I don't have enough knowledge of what packages are needed for which software.

Here is the situation:

Looking to install Linux on an ORB removable SCSI disk.

Capacity is 2.2 gigabytes

Computer is a Pentium 200Mhz

128 MB ram

Matrox Millenium II vid card

2.5 GB IDE HD with Windows installed ( must remain the primary OS )

Adaptec AHA Ultra Wide SCSI

This system must run:

KDE 3.x,
Firefox,
Some kind of Email client,
Some kind of IM client -gaim or something better- ,
xmms,
word processor,
spreadsheet,
and Linux Game Emulators.

It doesn't have to do anything else.
It won't ever need to do any programing or development beyond what's needed to use those apps and the emulators.

I'm figuring on putting LILO ( or something better? ) on a floppy to boot the system and leave the IDE windows drive unmolested.

I've tried building something up from zipslack but I'm not really fond of umsdos.

I've tried doing a standard Slackware install but I'm not very knowledgeable on what I can leave out and it uses almost the entire disk.

I'm very open to the idea of playing with something non-slackware based BTW.

What can you folks suggest for this situation?

I don't know any game-emulators and how
well they perform, but on a P200 128MB I'd
suggest NOT using KDE (or Gnome 2.x for
that matter) if it can be avoided ... as for Slack:

You don't need TeX which will save you close
to 200MB ... if you skip KDE and Gnome that's
somewhere between 300 ~ 400 MB as well ...

I'd recommend the tedious approach of the
newbie install and reading the package descriptions
which will give you a fair idea of whether you
need what you're about to install or not.


As for other distro's ... if it's not something like
knoppix' hard-disk install or vector or any distro
that still comes with only 1 CD you'll always be
confronted with choosing what you need.


Cheers,
Tink