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Topic: Linux in 32 meg compact flash

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frogbert

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Posted: July 16 2004,04:00

What I want to do is get a basic graphical linux system installed on a 32meg compact flash card. I have an adaptor for my laptop that treats the drive like a harddisk and I can boot off it. I don't have a floppy disc or cdrom for my laptop and its harddrive doesn't work so I'm left with 16meg of ram and 32meg of compact flash goodness.

All I'd like to do is have a text editor, network connectivity and perhaps a simple webbrowser. A gui would be great but I'd settle for using mcedit and lynx. Does this seem possible?

cbagger01

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Posted: July 17 2004,02:15

Try searching for "Basic Linux".

You should be able to fit it easily into a 32MB compact flash card. Unfortunately it is a lot harder to install.

Doctor
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Posted: July 29 2004,22:46

16megs of ram? 486 laptop?

Basic Linux 3 has a ton of programs that dont work well for i486, I had to replace libraries and a bunch of other stuff with packages from slackware 10.0, just a heads up

(currently using 486 laptop running BasicLinux3 + slackware 10 packages for stuff)

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