On Wed, 05 Feb 2003 08:58:21 +0530 Parag Shah pshah@adaptivesoftware.biz wrote:
|Amol, |There are some good floppy distros available. Trinux (3 floppies), |Coyote Linux, Tomsrtbt, Keeper Linux etc. Most of them have been |customized for specific functions, but you may be able to get a Mail |Server running. |Also check out linux from scratch. You can make your custom distro, with |just the things you need. They claim to have made one in under 8MB which |runs a web server.
Have you tried Gentoo Linux. It's an LFS, but without the quirks. And it gives great performance boosts. I had setup a small distro some time back when gentoo was in 1.1 status. They've vastly improved after that.
But it did need a cdrom drive then to kick off the process.
hth,
Zainul.
| |regards |Parag |Amol Gokhale wrote: | |>>Your answer could be Debian. With a minimal install 100MB should be |>>more than sufficient. Exim, which is the default mail server is also |>>very easy to configure. Infact, on installation you are asked a few |>>easy questions and lo behold it works! |>> |> |> |>Thanks guys I'll throw one more spanner in the works, I can't attach a cd |>drive to the laptop. So I was looking for a single floppy distro or |>something. |> |>Amol |> |> | | | | |-- |_______________________________________________ | |http://mm.ilug-bom.org.in/mailman/listinfo/linuxers | |