Hi,
There are distributions that fit onto a single floppy - just don't expect to
do much with them... (search Freshmeat.net)
They might not have bash (more used shell), and they certainly don't have X
so you can forget about GNOME/KDE or WM/E/whatever.
Quite whether your 386 machine will survive the month after december I
haven't the foggiest, and you'd have to bear in mind that with 8Mb RAM
you'll (AFAIK) be lucky to erun X no matter what distro you use.
If I were you I'd grab RedHat from somewhere (any vers) and do a
custom-install. That way you can cut out devel packages (gcc and the like),
GNOME and KDE, Apache, Postgres and numerous other things you simply won't
use and it should fit into 120Mb.
I know it can be done - I know someone who did it. And FWIW, dual-booting is
quite easy and comes up as as an option in the RedHat 5/6 installer.
Let us know the outcome...
--
James Green jg@linuxnewbie.com
Site Manager
LinuxNewbie.com
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Al [mailto:BioHazzard@mad.scientist.com]
> Sent: 23 November 1999 11:26
> To: alug@stu.uea.ac.uk
> Subject: [alug] Floppies
>
>
> Hello,
> I've been lurking for a few months now, and I've seen
> references to various
> distributions.
> Unfortunately I haven't been brave enough to try and run two
> OS's on my main
> machine as I use it for work.
> I have got sitting in the loft an old 386 machine that is
> gathering dust. it
> has a tiny (read 120mb) HD and and insignificant amount of
> ram (8mb) but I
> was wondering if there is a floppy distribution that might
> fit. Initially I
> really only want to learn the basics, once I am confident I
> can break and
> fix it again then I'll see about setting it up on my main machine.
> Any advice one way or the other would be appreciated.
> Thank you
> Al
>
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