On Sat, 17 Jul 2004, Bob George wrote: > If I figure out all the kinks of DOS networking, printing and display, I'll > happily leave the challenge of adapting it to REALLY small distros to > others. > 100MB is certainly do-able. 65 probably. Less might get REALLY (read: > extensive > modification away from any mainstream [can buy books on it] distribution) > interesting. James, do you use any of those small distros?
I download nearly every new release of DamnSmall, yes. This is the Knoppix of the survpc'er. It runs the same hardware detection routine (as Knoppix) and does an outstanding job of detecting and setting up hardware. And it runs Xvesa or Xfbdev and fluxbox, so the windowing system is quite lightweight. Minimum RAM requirements used to be 32, where it would run marginally. I noted in the latest release (0.7.2) that the ramdisk size is 44MB, so 64 might be needed to run it these days (I'm talking about running from bootable CD, where it needs to set up a ramdisk: if installed to and run from HD, the RAM requirements lessen). It's very impressive. I encourage you to try it. Lots of active development. Installed to HD size is initialy 100-150MB (not including swap). Downsides are: no man pages (the man command is set to start links browser and access a website) and that apt-get is broken. There is a "restore" script to get apt working again. But I can attest, having just done a HD install, that it does not work 100%: I get some broken dependencies that apt-get -f install can't seem to fix. Still, the bulk of the system works fine and is fully functional. > > > I've got WP 6.0 I could make available for testing purposes, if > > > that would help. > > > It would be nice to try, as I suspect WP is the Holy Grail of DOS apps. > Can you > provide a link? In the meantime, I am pleased to report yet more success. I Probably you don't still need this app, right? If you do, contacy me offlist and we'll work out something. James
