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Sauron
11-09-2000, 09:17 PM
I'm looking for a good floppy-based distro for an old computer of mine that I just recently put back together. It's a 120Mhz 5x68 processor with 20 Megs RAM and a 2 Gig HD. I'm looking to make it into a file server/firewall/etc. I've already tried Freesco, but for some reason I just can't get it to install. I'd also like something that's a little more robust than Freesco, too (as in, meant to be installed on a HD instead of just run from floppy). Any suggestions on a good distro would be greatly appreciated.

Oh, yeah, almost forgot....no CD-ROM on the system, which is why I'm looking for a distro that can install from floppy.

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ph34r
11-09-2000, 09:20 PM
You can install Slackware 7.1 from a few dozen floppies, or at least enough to get a base system and network stuff working to access files from somewhere else.

eperch
11-10-2000, 12:22 AM
HAL91 http://home.tu-clausthal.de/~incp/hal91.html

wmHardRock
11-10-2000, 08:04 AM
You can try a minimum Debian install. There's also a section on mini-distro's on freshmeat.net (http://freshmeat.net) . muLinux is supposed to be good. So does Coyote Linux or Trinux

wmHardRock

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fuzzy
11-10-2000, 10:30 AM
There's also NucLinux and tmsrtbt.


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