Re: [TCLUG:2065] Small Linux distribution fit for my friends?

[Nate Carlson <natecars@infiniteloop.com>]

Michael,

I would look at going with a small redhat or slackware installation, and
having one machine on the network with a larger hard drive that has
everything you want on it that won't fit on the local hard drive. (eg,
netscape, apps, etc..). Or, do nfsroot. (It sounds like all these machines
are/will be on the same network to me.. is this right?)

-Nate

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Nate Carlson
The Infinite Loop
natecars@infiniteloop.com

On Mon, 2 Nov 1998, Michael Hicks wrote:

> I have several friends that need to use the U of M's UNIX labs for their
> homework.  I highly doubt that any of them like to use the labs (since
> they would often have to be their for hours at a time).  I've looked at
> setting up X-Windows on some systems, but the free Win32 offerings are
> just not very good...  Would it be possible for me to create a Linux
> distro that can fit in <100MB and still include these features? :
> 
> 	X-Windows
> 	C development (probably only rudimentary..)
> 	Scheme (The U uses scheme as a teaching language...)
> 	Printing services (we gotta print out that homework, ya know..)
> 	Network utilities (hmm.. is the router to the lab down?)
> 	FTP client/daemon (transferring files back and forth to these
> machines..)
> 	Netscape (okay, not necessary, but it'd be nice..)
> 
> I've made a quick glance at ZipSlack -- a ~35MB Slackware distribution
> without(?) X-Windows that can exist in a UMSDOS filesystem on a Zip Disk
> or hard drive.
> 
> This looks to me like it would be a fairly good starting point
> (although, I have to admit I think I'd rather deal with a RedHat-based
> system...  These guys would probably have much more luck with RPMs than
> .tar.gz files...  OTOH, they probably won't install _anything_)
> 
> Has anyone out here tried ZipSlack, or any UMSDOS-based Linux, for that
> matter?  
> 
> Thanks...
> -- 
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