X terminal distributions?

Leo Mauler webgiant at yahoo.com
Fri Dec 3 00:45:39 CST 2004


--- Brian Kelsay <Brian.Kelsay at kcc.usda.gov> wrote:

> Looks like with using Small Linux you need 4MB for
> an X Windows system.  It's going to be pretty basic.
> (More inline.)
> 
> Brian Kelsay
> 
> >>> Leo Mauler <> 12/02/04 09:53AM >>>
> > I just wanted to mention that a lot of older 
> > CD-ROM drives don't like miniCDs and business 
> > card sized CDs (or at least don't seem to boot 
> > from them).  So even though DamnSmallLinux does 
> > fit on a miniCD, go ahead and burn it on a 
> > full-sized CD for those older laptops that still 
> > have CDs.
> 
> Correct.  And some old CD-ROM drives won't boot to
> CD.  YMMV.  You can still do a boot from floppy and
> hand off to CD.  

True enough.  In the laptops I've tried which didn't
boot from CD, miniCDs continued not to work even when
booting from floppy first.




		
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