ZipSlack is arround 80mb too. And you can dump it on a fat partition and boot it from there.

well, I just want something up and working for now
I guess I will download another binary later cause I already have alot of the file downloaded.

I strongly recommend Damn Small Linux. It's the only distribution i have come across that has everything you need in 50 mb. X, text editor, navigator, etc.

It's a live-cd but you can also install it to your hard drive. And you can install any extra software you want via apt-get from any debian server.

Quote: Original post by try_catch_this
well, I just want something up and working for now
I guess I will download another binary later cause I already have alot of the file downloaded.

I'm not entirely sure what you mean, but let me clarify - after you download and run the Gentoo installer, you have no software. What you have is essentially a boot loader, drivers for IDE, SCSI, Ethernet, framebuffers, and so on and so forth, and the very basic tools you need in order to later install software. Any software you install from here on - including the kernel, X.org, Gnome, KDE, whatever - you will have to download, and download in source form, which is much larger.

Gentoo is wonderful, but I would not want to use it if I had a <=56k connection. Installing and updating software would be extremely painful.

After getting about 15% in gentoo I started to download DSL and I am already at 15% and have about < 3 hrs left.

I guess i will keep on with the DSL and abandon gentoo.

Minix is suitable if you just wanna play around with a Unix like OS. If you want fancyness like an X server then you'll have to go with one of the bigger distros.

Arch is a little big(for you), but I like it.

It has a very slick package manager which can download packages. The full iso is about 500 megs (w/x11 & xfce)

The only thing that can be a problem is the install, but I figured it out fairily easily.

I would suggest you order the CDs with the distro on them for one main reason:

the bare gentoo installer isn't going to get you anywere(I think it would be a pain to download KDE and Gnonme from the command line). When you order the CDs(which aren't expensive anyway) You get a ton of software that would take you weeks to download(and lots of software you are really going to need). You can't really do anything with 81 Mgs of software. It would take the whole point out of actually installing Linux(installing and downloading software is a pain in linux save youself some time and install the software when you install the OS). Forget DSL and spend some cash to get a real distro.

[Edited by - QzarBaron on August 22, 2004 8:48:59 AM]

Quote: Original post by QzarBaron
I would suggest you order the CDs with the distro on them for one main reason:

the bare gentoo installer isn't going to get you anywere(I think it would be a pain to download KDE and Gnonme from the command line). When you order the CDs(which aren't expensive anyway) You get a ton of software that would take you weeks to download(and lots of software you are really going to need). You can't really do anything with 81 Mgs of software. It would take the whole point out of actually installing Linux(installing and downloading software is a pain in linux save youself some time and install the software when you install the OS. Forget DSL and spend some cash to get a real distro.

great advice.

I managed to install it and I have a dual boot thinggy foing, but DSL wont detect my modem, any help here?