Dan, this might solve your laptop problems. Take a look at Wolf below, also tiny Linux: http://tiny.seul.org/en/ -Dexter
>From http://www.mandrakeforum.com/article.php?sid=2102&lang=en Question: I have a problem, and I've been asking for help for a while and nobody could come up with a solution. I have a very old notebook, 386 processor with 4 MB RAM and floppy is the only input, which linux would run with this limited hardware, and where to find it? Answer: A handful of linux micro-distributions exist which run from a single floppy. Some are meant to be used as a rescue tool, others as firewalls, third as... Here is a short list, just for illustration: Pocket Linux: simple workstation with ssh client. http://www.pocket-lnx.org/about.html WOLF (Web On a Linux Floppy): Several simple client distributions; webbrowsing with lynx, email, ftp. http://www.woalf.uklinux.net/ LRP rooter... http://master-www.linuxrouter.org:8080/ Giotto. Modular mini distro. Various stuff... http://www.quietsche-entchen.de/giotto/ floppyfw. Firewall... http://www.zelow.no/floppyfw/ There is more, but this is enough for the illustration, I suppose... The problem is: Most (all?) of these mini-distributions require 8Mb RAM. Many require i486 too.
