[aclug-L] Re: Tiny distribution for Gateway Nomad 386 Mhz

["Dale W Hodge" <dwh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

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> Behalf Of David Wibowo
> Sent: Friday, March 08, 2002 9:33 AM
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> Subject: [aclug-L] Tiny distribution for Gateway Nomad 386 Mhz
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> I have a laptop 386 Gateway (Nomad). I'm planning to install Linux using
> tiny distribution. I'm planning to use this for some programming I need
> (gcc, java, and HTML, PHP or JSP, Apache, MySql) and personal checking
> program.
>
> do any of you know any good (& tiny) distribution which can run X
> window and
> capable of have apache install (only for off line)
>
> do any of you know any personal checking program which can print personal
> size check and able to calculate amount before the check clear.
> (GUI or not
> is OK)
>
> thanks
> David Wibowo
>
> NB: my hard drive space is about 20 MB
>     I don't need internet connection from that laptop (no modem
> or network
> card)

I'm quite sure there's no way to get the functionality you want in only 20
MB of disk space. One of the lightest dists I found would barely fit on a
100 MB Zip disk. And that was working very hard to get X installed.
(Although if you do have a parallel port Zip Drive there is/was a version of
Slackware that could run from a Zip Drive) You don't say how much RAM you
have installed, but a 386 with a 20mb disk probabaly doesn't have more than
4Meg of RAM.  Way too little to do anything useful.

--dwh

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