Re: [seul-edu] appropriate lightweight distribution

[Bill <selinux@home.com>]

On Thursday 13 December 2001 18:33, you wrote:
> I am planning on rebirthing some decrepid P133 16MB 1GB Windows
> machines as Linux word processing and internet terminals.  
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> Can anyone suggest a distribution for this purpose?

On the SEUL.org website you will find a distribution called "TINY" 
that purports to run just fine in 8 meg.

The terms "word processing" and "internet terminals" are just vague 
enough to make a precise answer difficult. 

I have had Windows running in 16 meg on a 230 meg HD (painful, 
painful, painful!) so there should be a way to do it (without nearly 
the pain) in Linux. 

Possibly you could start with a single diskette install such as 
tomsrtbt, peanut or floppyfw and add the application programs you 
need. Alternately you could "roll your own" kernel to support exactly 
the hardware you have and nothing else. If your hardware changes, you 
can always compile a fresh kernel.

Tip: do the compile on another (faster) machine and just copy the 
compiled kernel into position on the new machine. See the kernel 
how-to at Linux Doc or Linuxlookup <--preferred.

Possibly my brains are soggy cornflakes and some of the raisins are 
still crawling but this should be a fairly simple project to get to 
the end result you specified.

Bill
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