> I'm looking for a distribution that runs in 4 megs of ram has most of the
> tools I need for client oriented stuff.
> I've seen alot of small
> distributions out there but they are all for single disk installations or
> UMBDOS.
Well, RedHat won't install in less than 6, IIRC. some other might.
You will probably want to go to an older kernel, as they have (is this
inevitable) grown over time. Probably get some size comparisons of the
2.0 series and pick the smallest (sorry , never paid attention to them
much so I don't know which would be smallest). I'm guessing you want to
trade how old you can stand with how small you can get it.
Recompiling the kernel may or may not help -- as the initial kernel at
least for RedHat has nearly everything compiled as a module. It may be
true that recompiling once you know exactly what you need, so that those
things are monolithic and everything else is disabled will result in a
smaller kernel.
then, yes, make sure the daemons you're running are the minimum needed
(you really don't need inetd at all if you never talk 'to' your box, just
'from'). You will probably want to amass the text-based stuff and not
even bother installing the X, Linux+X won't run in 4M very well at all
(you will be using a lot of swap at that point) much less be comfortable
to run other large X apps in. so get used to lynx, pine and vim.
good luck... at 4M you will improve your performance by leaps and bounds
with every 1M you can add -- if you're not hardware limited I strongly
suggest you barter or buy some additional memory. Life will be better.
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