I have several older systems (like the craptop im using right now!) that
have small secondary storage systems (usually hard drives). 
Slack is a good choice, i havnt messed with zip slack though. 

To conserver space only install what you need (ie, dont install all the
programming stuff, gnome, kde, ...) With the smaller systems I usually use
blackbox (or fluxbox...) there is aslo icewm, and windowmaker, and ofcourse
the really old WMs(like twm, fvwm, fvwm-95)

OBSD can be installed in a relatively small amount of space too... Jacob
helped me get one of my craptops running obsd on a ~300MB disk, the install
was pretty easy... just pick the packages you need (they really are just
targz'd files).

Jamie

At 09:40 PM 6/23/03 -0700, you wrote:
>How many have experience with working systems taking up less
>than 512MB or smaller for the full system?? After taking a nice
>long liesurely ride with Larry and touching on the topic, I was
>thinking it's something I'd like to do. My initial goals are to
>only have a 256MB CF card with everything needed to boot the
>system and start the needed services. (Samba, NFS, SSH, distcc)
>>From there the RAID array would handle dishing out the data and
>a RAM disk if neccessary for faster response than the CF would
>allow. Forgive me for any bad spellings or english since I'm
>doing fine with my Fat Tire :)
>
>Thanks y'all
>
>Mr O.
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