[OFB Cafe] an actual computer-related question!

[dep]

said Timothy Butler:

| 	Sounds sensible enough. Firefox 2 might also be a good choice. I've
| found Windows 98 actually handles being online without being
| "hardened" better than Windows XP. Of course, that may have something
| to do with that most people who run Windows 98 still also seem to
| still have dial up internet...

i would like to set it up for multiple-boot. there's enough room on the 
drive for other good stuff, and it would be kind of cool to set aside, 
sat, 300 megs for a dos partition (yeah, you read that right, and oh, for 
a good, free, tcp-ip stack for dos!), and a little space for OS/2, and of 
course linux. problem is -- the floppy is pcmcia, and drivers for it are 
found in none of those OSes, so it would have to be some kind of weird 
install; also the bios offers boot from floppy and boot from hard drive, 
and that's it. then there's the matter of only 64 megs of memory. piece of 
cake with dos, of course, and OS/2, but linux?

so -- anybody know of a small, fast, full-featured linux that can be 
installed entirely online? preferably a debian derivative. i've looked a 
little at dsl, and it's impressive. i have a wireless pcmcia card, and i 
think it would be cool to get that working in this machine. would be a 
nice computer for the bedside table. the thinkpad is a little big for 
that.

ideas?
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dep

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