Re: Installing Linux on 100 megs or less

From: John-Paul Stewart (jpstewart_at_sympatico.ca)
Date: 08/01/03 

Date: Fri, 01 Aug 2003 16:10:53 -0400

Lew Pitcher wrote:
>
> Kyler Laird wrote:
> > keeganalex@yahoo.com (Keegan Alex) writes:
> >
> >
> >>Are there any distros that with custom installs will give me a working
> >>Linux system with sound support at under 100 megs?
> >
> >
> > Getting something in 2 or even 8MB is tricky. 100MB should
> > give you a lot of options.
> >
> > I just did a quick install of Debian using debootstrap
>
> For that matter, Slackware has a version called "ZipSlack", which is
> designed to install on a 100Mb Zipdisk

I was also going to recommend ZipSlack, but apparently it lacks X
packages in the basic distribution. (See Q3 of their FAQ at
http://www.slackware.com/faq/do_faq.php?faq=zipslack) Adding those
packages will likely take you over the 100MB mark.

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