On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 08:58:21 +0530
Parag Shah <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

|Amol,
|There are some good floppy distros available. Trinux (3 floppies), 
|Coyote Linux, Tomsrtbt, Keeper Linux etc. Most of them have been 
|customized for specific functions, but you may be able to get a Mail 
|Server running.
|Also check out linux from scratch. You can make your custom distro, with 
|just the things you need. They claim to have made one in under 8MB which 
|runs a web server.

Have you tried Gentoo Linux. It's an LFS, but without the quirks. And it
gives great performance boosts. I had setup a small distro some time back
when gentoo was in 1.1 status. They've vastly improved after that.

But it did need a cdrom drive then to kick off the process.


hth,

Zainul.


|
|regards
|Parag
|Amol Gokhale wrote:
|
|>>Your answer could be Debian.  With a minimal install 100MB should be
|>>more than sufficient.  Exim, which is the default mail server is also
|>>very easy to configure.  Infact, on installation you are asked a few
|>>easy questions and lo behold it works!
|>>
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|>
|>Thanks guys I'll throw one more spanner in the works, I can't attach a
cd
|>drive to the laptop. So I was looking for a single floppy distro or
|>something.
|>
|>Amol
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