> It seems to have a base disk, and other diskettes > are needed for drivers and likely modules.
This clearly doesn't have to be so. You need a base floppy, but all the other packages Trinux has can reside on a http server. Add dhcp and I can boot any PC in my couple of networks to be a network management and analyses workstation, sniffer, you name it. Yes, documentation has been a little scarce in the past, but once you understand the scripts it's a powerful tool. > So, I moved on to full Unixes bootable off of > CD. My favorites are Knoppix and lxcr-bbc / lcxr-bbc. But I'll sure have a look at those. Ingo