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Date:Mon Mar 14 14:41:03 2001 
Subject:Re: (Still) Off topic 
From:jonathan . cunningham 
Volume-ID:1010313.08 

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew E. Sayers <ug55aes@cs.bham.ac.uk>
To: pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk <pop-forum@cs.bham.ac.uk>
Date: 13 March 2001 20:58
Subject: Re: (Even more) Off topic


>On Tue, Mar 13, 2001 at 12:12:08PM +0000, Stephen Isard wrote:
>> There is in fact a class of small linux distributions, of which the best
>> known is probably tomsrtbt (http://www.toms.net/~toehser/rb/), that
>
>There are also less-small mini-distributions, designed to fit on a
>credit-card sized CD-R.


(snip)

Ok, this is a question I should really ask on one of the Linux groups,
but the answers might be subtly different for a poplog user ...

I've just acquired a very old Pentium PC (just the box, no monitor,
keyboard nuffin'). It's so old, it even has a 5.25" floppy, as
well as (fortunately) a 3.5". It also has an ethernet card but, and
here's the catch, no CDROM drive.

It has a 1GB hard disk (which I've promised to erase - I wouldn't
want WfWG anyway!). I thought it would make a good machine
for experimenting with, and hope to install Linux (and poplog) on
it.

I was thinking I'd have to (temporarily) borrow a CDROM from another
machine, in order to install Linux. But if I could boot off a floppy
and get it working well-enough to ftp files (or something) through
the network card ...

Oh, and it only has 16Mb of RAM, so I wouldn't be running X-Windows,
but VED (not xved) would be quite convenient, I should think, for
developing non-graphical stuff.

Any suggestions? (Which Linux? What I don't need to download for
poplog etc.?)

Jonathan