[TriLUG] Distros at the Installfest

[crimsun at fungus.sh.nu]

On Wed, Jan 21, 2004 at 01:28:03PM -0500, jsevans at nc.rr.com wrote:
> This will be my first installfest, and I was wandering what distros will be available.  I am hoping to install Debian, and I am sure that the other mainstream distros will be available also, but what about the lesser well known ones like Gentoo, Yellowdog, Sorcerer, Damn Small, and others.

Debian, Knoppix, Red Hat, Mandrake for sure. Nearly positive SUSE and
Gentoo as well. Not so sure about Arch, Lunar, Yellowdog, Corel,
Libranet, ...

> Secondly, I am hoping to bring in my nearly dead 166mhz Dell Laptop in for installation.  Installation will have be primarily through floppy.  I mean primarily because the CDROM runs through a PCMCIA card.  Any suggestions for a small distro that I would need to bring with me, if it will not be provided?  I do not need a GUI interface on this machine.  Links, Bitchx, and mutt are good enough for me.

There are some very small distros that fit on one or two 3.5" floppy
diskettes (based on either Slackware, Debian, ...). Some run entirely
from them, others can be used to bootstrap a full install. Take a look
on freshmeat.net.

HTH.

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Daniel T. Chen          crimsun at fungus.sh.nu
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