From: "Ross Werner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > The first thing I'm looking for is something that will recognize the > network, so I can copy off all the important Windows 3.1 (yes, you read ... > 486 DX4 100 Mhz processor > 16 MB memory > 740 MB hard drive > SMC8036TX EZ Card 10/100 PCMCIA ethernet > 1.44 floppy, no CD-ROM or anything fancy
The first thing I'd look into is a "linux on a disk" type of distro; one that can read FAT and has drivers for your card so you can copy that data. Check out tomsrtbt [1]; I haven't played with it for a while, but it may do what you want. As for an install, I'd recommend trying (at least) a BSD, perhaps OpenBSD. Don't know about the latest, but about 2 versions ago you could get a very functional (ssh, sendmail, apache, no X) install for around 100MB. It supports FTP install. Matt [1] http://www.toms.net/rb/ ____________________ BYU Unix Users Group http://uug.byu.edu/ ___________________________________________________________________ List Info: http://uug.byu.edu/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/uug-list
