Subj : Re: minimal linux install from iso... To : comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup From : patrick Date : Tue Aug 31 2004 02:54 am staale wrote: > rodg wrote: > >> Thanks everyone for the input so far. My solution will be to get some >> more >> ram out of another non-functioning box. >> >> I am now running into another problem. There seems to be no way in >> the bios >> to tell this box to boot from CD. It does have DOS installed and working, >> but I am not a dos person by any means. How can I make it fire up the >> iso >> image on the cd? I can see it is there, just can't figure out how to >> make >> it execute? I tried looking for an updated bios, but no luck so far on >> that. >> Hopefully someone out there knows the dos command to ececute that >> image... >> >> Thanks again. It's a fun experiment to see if I can get this old >> dinosauer >> doing something worthwhile rather than ending up in a landfill. >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> "Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez" wrote in message >> news:mUmYc.111503$r4.2946160@news-reader.eresmas.com... >> >>> rodg wrote: >>> >>>> I am looking for an iso of a minimal linux distro for a 386: >>>> >>>> with 8mb ram, 430 mb hd, pentium 75mhz currently has windoz3.1/dos. >>>> >>>> please reply to newsgroup & comprecyclerftc@yahoo.com >>>> >>>> thanks in advance! >>>> >>>> >>>> >>> >>> If you are talking about a LiveCD you can find some in the Knoppix >>> home site, all variants from the Knoppix distribution. Also there is >>> a Gnome LiveCD lite I think. >>> >>> If you are talking about a distribution to install, Debian would be >>> the more obvious advice, but someone told in some newsgroup that the >>> installer needed 16Mb to run, so he said the best solution would be >>> a Slackware. >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> Jose Maria Lopez Hernandez >>> Director Tecnico de bgSEC >>> jkerouac@bgsec.com >>> bgSEC Seguridad y Consultoria de Sistemas Informaticos >>> http://www.bgsec.com >>> ESPAŅA >>> >>> The only people for me are the mad ones -- the ones who are mad to live, >>> mad to talk, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, >>> the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn >>> like fabulous yellow Roman candles. >>> -- Jack Kerouac, "On the Road" >> >> >> >> >> > > This is the tool you nead http://btmgr.webframe.org/ > > Best regards > Staale > more than 190 LiveCDs are here! http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php .