James, I will try to look into these distros although I did not know that 9.0 was able to get down to 64Meg. That might even work for my purposes.
What is required to get it that small and where can I find out what exactly is installed when Mandrake is set to this lower limit? Thanks, Lonnie --- James Sparenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Lonnie > > Couple of things here. With 9.0 the minimum install is 64megs. But > there are a lot of Micro distro's out there that might do you a better > turn. (Blue Cat Linux, Devil Linux, Peanut Linux, PeeWee Linux and > more) > > A good place to start is. > http://linuxdevices.com/ > > and hit the page there called Products. > > http://linuxdevices.com/products/index.html > > It's more than just Linux it even includes things like micro browsers > etc. > > > James > > > > > On Mon, 2003-02-24 at 22:05, Lonnie Cumberland wrote: > > Hello, > > > > I am working to put together a project and want to base it on the lattest > > Mandrake Linux so that as newer versions of your product come out the we > can > > upgrade the components easily. This will also help to promote Mandrake as > the > > base operating system. > > > > What I need to do is to have the smallest version of Mandrake that I can > put > > together. > > > > The basic features of mandrake that I need are: > > > > 1. Latest kernel > > 2. Latest Xfree86 > > 3. network/ppp support > > 4. base ext3 filesystem > > 5. NFS > > 6. XDMCP/XDM > > 7. simple csh shell. > > 8. rpm facilities > > > > The idea is that I need the absolute smallest possible distrabution of > > Mandrake that can cover these requirements. It would be optimum if we could > > keep the entire thing under 40MB for less if it is possible. I have > recently > > heard about a 2-DiskXwin that fits on 2 floppies but am not sure if that > would > > be a good starting point or not. > > > > I will be adding a few of my own applications and want to incorporate the > > DrakeX and HardDrake for the installation method. The user will then also > be > > allowed to add more of their own Mandrake application selections as needed. > > > > Can you please help me to locate such a variation on Mandrake or how it > might > > be done easily. > > > > Sincerely > > Lonnie > > > > __________________________________________________ > > Do you Yahoo!? > > Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more > > http://taxes.yahoo.com/ > > > > > > ______________________________________________________________________ > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > > > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com > __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Tax Center - forms, calculators, tips, more http://taxes.yahoo.com/
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