Also look into mulinux. It was small before either of those. Now on http://mulinux.dotsrc.org/ version 14r0. Not under active development, but will work on a 386. There is also Tom's rootboot and many others. -----Original Message----- Monty J. Harder wrote: | On 1/4/06, *David Nicol* < | | If only there was a boot floppy that would turn the dust magnet into | something | that would be of use. | | http://www.linuxrouter.org/ ...which has been fairly dead for a while. For more recent (but still fits on a floppy and runs on almost any old hardware) versions: http://www.leaf-project.org/ The current uClibc based Bering release is an excellent way to turn most any spare PC into a router/stateful-firewall/vpn-gateway/whatever.