> On Tue, Feb 06, 2001 at 04:07:06PM -0600, Brian wrote: > I'm not looking to start a war here but I'm looking for comments / > suggestions on a good distro. I've got a 386 laptop with 4 MB RAM and a 60 > MB hard drive. The real solution here would be "upgrade your laptop", > but this is what I have. My primary use for this machine is Cisco work. I > basically need a laptop that has VT100 terminal emulation (minicom is > nice), dialup, and ethernet capability. I need something light, fast, and > stable as my laptop is none of these. I've been born and raised on Redhat > but dabbled with Debian. Slack is beyond my understanding. FreeBSD is > just plain obscure. Any suggestions on a tight, fast OS to accomodate my > needs? > You might want to try one of the "mini-distributions". I haven't played with many of them, but there are several really small distributions out there. The only one I've really played with is Tom's Root Boot <http://www.toms.net/rb/>. The whole thing fits on one floppy and has most of the stuff you wanted. A better option might be to go with an old version of Debian. I'd probably try either Hamm (2.0) or Bo (1.3.1). (Browing the Bo installation manual it says you need 4 MB of RAM and 40 MB of disk, so you might want to start there.) You can find them at ftp://archive.debian.org/debian-archive/, or if you want to wait till the next meeting someone would probably loan you their old CDs (I would if I ever made it to meeetings ;) ). Anyway, I think that you could fit a workable system into your contraints, but you'd have to trim off a lot of packages that Debian wants to install by default. X (obviously), TeTeX, emacs, Perl, and all of those compiler and development packages. Anyway, that's what I'd try. Jim -- Jim Crumley | crumley at fields.space.umn.edu | Work: 612 624-6804 or -0378 |