Be kind to me here....I have a v old labtop.....2m RAM and a 40M hard
drive. Do I have a snowball's chance of finding anything GNU/ Linuxwise to
run on it. Don't expect or want it to do much...just an interesting little
project.
Brian
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> I'd have to agree with Debian as a great distribution for creating these
> sorts of minimal servers. It can be a pain hunting through dselect to
> find what packages you need, though. A good way to go is to install the
> minimum configuration first and then add whatever you need. dselect
will
> drag in an extra packages for you automatically.
>> I recently helped my girlfriend set up debian 2.1 on a low memory laptop
> (4MB Ram/250MB HD). A slightly more than minimal, but very useful
install
> (without X) took less than 50MB.
>>
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