Compaq Contura 3/25

On Sat, 2003-01-11 at 18:30, frankburton001@netscape.net wrote:
> I just got a new laptop (free) Its a Compaq Contura 3/25 (4mb harddrive 25 mhz 386) and I'm looking for a distro that will run on it. I did a google search and came up with very little just a small note in the kernal archive http://www.uwsg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0109.3/0993.html. So I know I can put linux on it. It doesn't have a cd drive, modem or Nic card so it is pretty useless but I don't have to worry about breaking it either. I don't need X windows. I'm perfectly happy in a shell and I'm just going to be using it to explore Linux. I tried a couple of floppy distros that I had laying around BootE and webwolf ,but both wanted a least a 486. Can anybody point me in the right direction,
>
> TIA
> Frank Burton
>
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I had a similar situation with an old Toshiba Satellite. Most of the
mini-distros I looked at required 8MB, and I only had 4MB, but
BasicLinux (based on Slackware 3.5) has a good how-to on installing on a
machine that only had 4MB. (Mine doesn't have a cd drive either --
bummer.)

-Michelle

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