Slackware can boot from CD, or you can make boot and root diskettes with RAWRITE
under DOS, and RAWRITE also works in an OS/2 DOS session. I believe this is
true for FreeBSD and NetBSD. You can also make diskettes from images on CD with
dd from Linux or Unix. Maybe there is a dd for DOS somewhere on Simtel or one
of its mirrors? You don't need MS Windows. Do Corel and RedHat not work
without Windows?
Newer releases of Slackware (7.0 or 7.1) include a newer Netscape, meaning
greater RAM requirement, might limp on a lowend DOS comp, or not run at all, or
Linux might not run at all, depending on how lowend.
I notice BeOS 5 Personal Edition, free for a big download, is set up as a
Windows (95,98 or NT) application in a 512 MB (no more, no less) file.
