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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.
>
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