That's not a bad idea, I hadn't thought of that. I have no intention of installing gcc, since there won't be any compliation on the box. I *think* that the Debian packaging system needs perl, though, but I wouldn't swear to that.
It does indeed.
The idea of the floppy distributions is rather a good one -- how difficult would it be to put X on top of one of those? I intended to use Debian because I understand the packaging system, and it handles dependencies well, which makes it a lot less stressful to ensure that I have all the things I need on the box. There's a "pick and choose at individual package level" version of the install, so I'm tempted to do that, I think.
That could work - just install the base system, and *nothing* else. Then install things as and when you need them. I can't remember how big X is, I must admit.
I've actually got a copy of Mu-Linux floating around on floppies somewhere, so assuming I can find the bugger, I'll bring that along (and believe it or not, it has X on it already, albeit a very old version!)
Paul
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