> I've got an old Pentium lying about that has no hard drive, and I'd like
> to use it as a gateway machine,
So far so good.
I run coyote (from a floppy) with good vibes.
> I'd like it to have a good stock of GNOME apps,
> various text-processing utilities, web serving from remote filesystems,
> etc.
I think you're heading in a different direction here.
This is where you want swap space, and faster access than what
a CD provides. (Unless you have buckets of memory).
In this case, uou're probably looking at a hard drive or NFS.
Jamie
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