I would like to know if which Linux distro's ISOs have the text games (bsdgames and other ones) on them?

Which ones would install on P-II machines (32 MB to 256 MB RAM)

I need these machines to use for coding but need to have text games.

Please advise distros which have the text games on the ISOs.

These P-IIs don't have network cards so I need to install using CDs.

Thanks and Regards,
Deboo

I know for sure that Slackware includes bsdgames & some other games; but off top of my head, I cannot say which Slackware will install on a 32MB machine. You'd need to check the docs at Slackware.com for system requirements, and/or do a tiny bit of searching here on LQ or with Google.

Slackware's the only OS I am most familiar with, so I cannot advise about any other OS that will meet your requirements.

Best of luck,
Sasha

I second the Slack recommendation and you may want to check out Damn Small Linux (don't know if games are included) and Linux From Scratch (build your own distro)

I would very much like to use damnsmall but I could not confirm the games thing. Their forum doesn't let me post for some reason even when I have registered. Some activation problem.

I read about Slax on distrowatch. How about this? Does it have the games included? Another one I googled about was skolelinux which is for schools. The only thing is I would need to download the whole DVD as the netinstall wouldn't be of use.

What about running DSL and then just grabbing the bsdgames package from a Slack repository? It's just a gzipped tar archive, the binaries should be compatible eh?

Nice thing but how do you install the tarballs so that you don't need to install it everytime?

Well, once something's installed, it's installed. You don't need to reinstall it every time. This assumes though that you either A) have DSL installed to the HDD, or B) have the games and stuff somewhere on a HDD so you can access them (in a case of you running DSL live or from RAM)

I'm not sure what DSL uses for a package manager, but if it does have one (and you have it installed to the HDD), you could repackage the games or whatever archive you get, such as a tar.gz, repackage it as a compatible package for DSL, and install it.

Does this help?

Sasha

Alternately (and beyond me as to how to do it) you could remaster the DSL disc, adding the games to it, and re-burn it as 'your special DSL' with the games included.

Sasha