On Tuesday 02 September 2003 06:37 pm, Renat Golubchyk wrote: > Hi! > > On Wednesday 03 September 2003 00:14, Stephen Turner wrote: > > hey i was hoping for a small linux distro. like i love my bloated destop > > its blazing thanks to those optimizations but what if i wanted to use > > gentoo for somthing embedded? i was hoping to get something small like > > debian. with the auto stuff like gentoo ;) i tried using 386 once back in > > 1.3 i think and it didnt work out the system seemed to be corrupt. ive > > tried a few flags to i think it was -s to try to make the binarys small > > as possible? anyways i realize this isnt the goal of gentoo to make > > things tiny but if i could get the basic install with X and a few other > > apps onto a 700m cd it would make my heart sing! :D did i just goof the > > 386 install or is 486 the lowest supported? > > I wouldn't call 700MB espicially tiny, would you? ;-) > > But if a CD is okay then it means that you want a read-only system. Then > what's wrong with using Knoppix? > >
How about? http://www.damnsmalllinux.org It's a 48meg iso, can be burned to one of those neat credit-card sized cdr's and has all the bells and whistles you need. -- ****************************************************************************** Registered Linux User Number 185956 http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&safe=off&group=linux Join me in chat at #linux-users on irc.freenode.net This email account no longers accepts attachments or messages containing html. 8:15pm up 54 days, 6:13, 3 users, load average: 0.00, 0.03, 0.01 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
