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Re: [Plug] Small Linux distros
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I think http://superant.com has info about small linux distros and related
information...
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On Thu, 29 Jul 1999 umweber@mcs.drexel.edu wrote:
> I got bored last night, and put an old 80 meg MFM seagate hard drive and
> wd controller card from an old computer that was under my bed, and decided
> to put it in a compaq presario 486.. Amazingly enough it worked, even
> though I couldn't even get into the bios on the damn thing.. but it was
> running msdos 5 something, and windows 1.01, heheh.
> Anyway.. here is my question... would any of the popular
> linux distributions fit on 80 megs? Or has anyone tried some smaller
> distributions that they've found to have alot of functionality in the
> smallest amount of drive space. I looked over some tiny linux distros on
> freshmeat, and I've ran muLinux before on this box without a hard drive,
> which was 2 floppy disks, 1 of which was just X, which was neat, because
> it even had ppp, and supposedly it had support for installing on to a hard
> drive, but I am wondering if anyone else had used anything better.. or if
> I would have any problems with the drive being MFM and not IDE, though my
> bios has no problem with it.
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> Thanks!
>
> --
> Michelle Weber
> umweber@mcs.drexel.edu
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