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
> > 
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