According to one HOWTO (contained in a Red Hat distribution) there
appears to be a nifty way to install a rather complet DEBIAN on a ZIP
Disk, using far less than the 100 MB of it, *and* make this bootable
with it.
This then could even run in a 4 MB RAM machine.
We'll try to reproduce this in the very next days, and I'll tell if it
works.
Author of the HOWTO says he uses this (with the external Zipdrive on
the printer port) for troubleshooting in his larger (20+) units
workplace. I imagin it could be of us in far wider conditions.
Installation and initial "finding one's way" with Linux for newbies
(like me) seems to be indeed the major threshold.
One specific aspect with this is that you need to know about what you
would need in a "small" setup, and what not. Which is a catch-22
situation, say, if you sit in Siberia with an old, naked machine an
just the disks/CD at your hand. The tons of books, and the good, but
very dispersed information in the HOWTOs leave out some trivial but
elementar things, or at least make them hard to find.
(Long live DOS - just type "shit" and you get the answer.)
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