Subj : Re: minimal linux install from iso... To : comp.os.linux.network,comp.os.linux,comp.os.linux.hardware,comp.os.linux.setup From : staale Date : Tue Aug 31 2004 03:17 am 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 .