David Pierre wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks for all responses.
>
> >How small? It is pretty easy to make a boot floppy with
> >linux + networking, but X and netscape are not going to fit
> >on a floppy.
>
> My question lacked precisions, sorry.
>
> I would like all the stuff to fit under 16Mo of flashdisk.
> I tried to downsize a several linux distrib. and i didn't success to
> go under 30Mo. (I am new at linux...). Maybe i didn't use right distrib.
>
> I tried with debian, slackware and redhat
>
> Bye
>
> Pierre David
To downsize the kernel and root filesystem look at DLX
http://speth08.wu-wien.ac.at/usr/h93/h9301726/
and the ' howto make a boot /root floppy'.
This is however without X windows system,
but you could try to add this, or use lynx instead of netscape.
Luc
