Ahhhhh... That's good of you, now I can get started. Thanks :) Rupa At 18:02 3/03/99 -0800, you 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] >---------------------------------------------------------------- >
