One option for you is Zipslack, a version of the Slackware distribution that installs in a DOS directory and boots using loadlin. It is a single, 35 meg zipfile that unzips to about 100 megs. One ftp source for it is: ftp://metalab.unc.edu/pub/Linux/distributions/slackware/zipslack/zipslack.zip You probably will also want to get the file readme.1st from the same URL and path. There are some other, even smaller distributions of Linux, but they tend to be very specialized (e.g., Linux-router, Trinux which focuses on network testing, and SmallLinux which is geared to old machines with little RAM). Zipslack is the smallest general-purpose Linux I know of. You might want to consider getting Linux on CD, though. Since you don't have Web access, I'm at something of a loss in telling you *how* to do this conveniently. But the latest Slackware CD (3.6) includes Zipslack, and one publisher, Cheapbytes, just released a CD of the Stampede distribution that includes a collection of small distributions called TinyLinux. At 12:57 PM 3/4/99 +1300, Rupa wrote [abridged]: >So what is a good version of unix that is small, text only, and allows easy >installation? Something that will give me experience with the actual >operating system, and not add on applications? > >Where would I download the files, or file that would allow me to install >this. Including the full ftp site location, and path, and filename. Since I >only have email access, where I will be downloading it, through ftp by email. ------------------------------------"Never tell me the odds!"--- Ray Olszewski -- Han Solo 762 Garland Drive Palo Alto, CA 94303-3603 650.321.3561 voice 650.322.1209 fax [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------
