That sounds pretty slick...er...slack!  I will have to look into that.

I can install to the card from a CD or just dumping and image to it.

Alan

At 03:29 PM 10/5/01 -0700, you wrote:
>First, I'm going to assume there is a cdrom you can boot from, hoping
>this is a laptop..
>I have a laptop with only a 300 mb hard drive and 16 megs of ram, so I
>know this works...
>
>I booted with the slack 8 cd using the 'bare245.i' kernel ( when it asks
>for options, just type that in.. or hit F1 then F2 to see the other
>choices) setup all the partitions on the master drive (your pc-ide card)
>next type setup..
>Select target drive and let it format them, I chose reiserFS,
>then it asks what packages you want, I chose a1, ap1, and N 
>then chose which packages in each disk series I wanted..
>Most of A, a few from ap1, and a couple from N..
>
>And I was done.
>It installs lilo, reboots and your all set.
>
>I only used 43 megs.(firewall system)
>And I tried again for a command line workstation and did it sufficiently
>with 105 megs or so.
>
>You have a lot of flexibility with the slack install.
>
>nathan