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RE: [TCLUG:2065] Small Linux distribution fit for my friends?



check out zip slack, it's designed to run on a zip disk.. with about 10 meg or
so of free space.

On 02-Nov-98 Michael Hicks wrote:
> I have several friends that need to use the U of M's UNIX labs for their
> homework.  I highly doubt that any of them like to use the labs (since
> they would often have to be their for hours at a time).  I've looked at
> setting up X-Windows on some systems, but the free Win32 offerings are
> just not very good...  Would it be possible for me to create a Linux
> distro that can fit in <100MB and still include these features? :
> 
>       X-Windows
>       C development (probably only rudimentary..)
>       Scheme (The U uses scheme as a teaching language...)
>       Printing services (we gotta print out that homework, ya know..)
>       Network utilities (hmm.. is the router to the lab down?)
>       FTP client/daemon (transferring files back and forth to these
> machines..)
>       Netscape (okay, not necessary, but it'd be nice..)
> 
> I've made a quick glance at ZipSlack -- a ~35MB Slackware distribution
> without(?) X-Windows that can exist in a UMSDOS filesystem on a Zip Disk
> or hard drive.
> 
> This looks to me like it would be a fairly good starting point
> (although, I have to admit I think I'd rather deal with a RedHat-based
> system...  These guys would probably have much more luck with RPMs than
> .tar.gz files...  OTOH, they probably won't install _anything_)
> 
> Has anyone out here tried ZipSlack, or any UMSDOS-based Linux, for that
> matter?  
> 
> Thanks...
> -- 
>                     --== Mike Hicks ==--
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Thank You,
        Ben Kochie (ben@nerp.net)

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