Re: [aclug-L] stripped down Linux

[John Phillips <jphillip@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Linux will do the job.  Emergency boot partitions can be built in a
20 meg partition.


On Sat, 3 Jul 1999, Michael Holmes wrote:

> I need a CPU to monitor and save it to disk.  I am wondering if any thing 
> of Linux would fit on a 40 meg HD?  The system I am thinking of consists of 
> a ms dos 5.0 with a vc++ program to read clicks off of a wired mouse (crude 
> but it is all I need)  I have a reed switch wired across the left and 
> another across the right mouse button, and I just need to record the times 
> the switches are activated.  The system with either be a pc386 or a 
> pc486-25--el-cheapo.  But, I will only put a 40 meg unit in it.  Can Linux 
> or a relative of it do the job.???
> 
> mike
> 
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