----- Original Message -----
From: "Kevin Buettner" <kev@illusions.com>
To: <plug-discuss@lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us>
Sent: Friday, October 05, 2001 3:06 PM
Subject: Re: Linux <= 128MB


> On Oct 5,  2:41pm, Alan Dayley wrote:
>
> > I am looking for a bootable Linux distro that I can install on a 128MB
ATA
> > PC-card.  X-server is not needed, just console and some standard admin
> > apps.  The PC-Card will be in an IDE adapter so the system sees it as
the
> > master IDE drive.
> >
> > Any recommendations?
>
> I wonder if you could adapt the Red Hat system administrator's survival
> CD for your purposes?  See:
>
>     ftp://ftp ftp.redhat.de/pub/rh-addons/rescue-cd
>
> You might also look at some of the packages used to create custom
> rescue disks.  (I used one a while back, but I forgot what it was
> called.)
>
> I haven't tried out Slackware in a very long time, but when I used
> to use it, I seem to remember that you could customize the install
> to fit in a fairly small space.  Perhaps that's still true.

I think you could adapt Zip Slack to do the job :))) that would be cool

>
> I think you should also be able to take pieces from an already working
> system and assemble these into a new root file system.  That way you
> could use your favorite distro.  (It'd be a valuable learning experience
> too because you'd find out about the various dependencies between the
> files you assemble into your new root file system.)
>

true true ....

Nige
> Kevin
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