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  1. February 10th, 2004, 09:11 PM #1
    schumanusa
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    small distribution

    Does anybody know where I can find an operating system that will install and run on a 386 laptop? I need to be able to install it from floppies and would be willing to use a Command Line Interface. I have 4M of ram and 140M of Hard drive, and a black and white screen. I'd like to get the modem working for something like Pine in linux, but it isn't nessecary. Any help is appreciated.
    Aoccdrnig to rscheearch at an Elingsh uinervtisy, it deosn\'t mttaer in waht oredr the ltteers in a wrod are, the olny iprmoetnt tihng is taht frist and lsat ltteres are at the rghit pclae.The rset can be a toatl mses and you can sitll raed it wouthit porbelm. Tihs is bcuseae we do not raed ervey lteter by it slef but the wrod as a wlohe.
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  2. February 10th, 2004, 09:29 PM #2
    w0lverine
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    why dont you try DOS


    and take a look at this, MenuetOS
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  3. February 10th, 2004, 09:36 PM #3
    MemorY
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    Menuet is fits on one floppy, and is very good. For further Floppy OS's do a search on "Linux on floppies" on google.
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  4. February 11th, 2004, 03:50 AM #4
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    http://bengross.com/smallunix.html

    Has everything from unix to linux to bsd tiny OSes

    http://www.bootdisk.com/

    Has links to many bootable thingies. Check the mini os section
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  5. February 11th, 2004, 04:47 AM #5
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    I searched "small linux distribution floppy" on Google and found these:

    http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions/Floppy/
    http://bengross.com/smallunix.html
    http://directory.google.com/Top/Comp.../Floppy_Sized/
    http://www.trash.net/~jgs/floppy_linux.html

    I only scanned the results quickly so probably there are lots of repeats.

    Later,
    mjk

    EDIT: Oops didn't realise the bengross.com one was alread posted by Lansing_Banda.
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