On Mon, 06 Mar 2000, Russell Simmons wrote about, 386/small distro/recommendation:
> I have an old Dell lap-top with a 386/math co-prosessor, a (whopping!)
> 60 mb hd, and 8 megs of ram. I would like to make it a linux box, for
> word processing, and to further my education of the os. I will have
> to install from floppy. I have read of some small installations, and
> was wondering if anyone has had success with a particular disto on such
> a setup. Any info will be much appreciated.
Slackware is what you need.
But 60Mb IS rather small, word processing might be a problem, or if you
mean just use a normall text editor like joe, then you have enough room,
however X is out of the question.
If on the other hand you had a cdrom in that machine then you could have
run your distro off it.
On another note, you can run NFS mounts from the 386 to another machine if
you have network cards installed.
>
> Russell
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