This email was mistakenly delivered to Positive Telecom, Inc. and is being forwarded to the intended recipient as a courtesy. Administrator [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----------------------------------------------------------------- Ray Olszewski wrote: > 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] > ----------------------------------------------------------------
