Small Distro Question

[Gregory J. Neumann]

Slackware's good for that size and shape.  Use the "expert" menus and
you can get a pretty darn small installation .... WAY less than 500 meg.
I've run Slackware dual boot on a 386/SX and a 40 Meg HD, so you can
squeeze it pretty small.  AFAIK, Mandrake and RedHat won't install on
anything less than a Pentium anymore.  I've been playing w/ Gentoo
Linux, but it needs LOTS of temp space.  The upside is you get a custom
compiled Linux precisely tuned to your hardware.

-Greg

-----Original Message-----
From: owner-nflug at nflug.org [mailto:owner-nflug at nflug.org] On Behalf Of
Jonathan Younker
Sent: Thursday, June 06, 2002 16:25
To: nflug at nflug.org
Subject: Small Distro Question


Hello,
My name is Jonathan, and I've been lurking on the list for a little
while 
now.  I've been using Linux for about a year, mostly in a library 
environment (money's tight for libraries these days).
We're looking into setting up a bare-bones DNS server as a fail-over for

the library's main ones housed in the school's IT department.  It would 
only run the DNS software and SSH.
We've got some old 486s that have 500mb HDDs and 16mb RAM.
My question:
Are there any distros that anyone would recommend for something like
this? I've played with Slackware, but I've heard of some smaller 
distributions.  Does anyone have a favourite?
Thanks,
Jonathan.