Distro for aging laptop -- bootable CD?

[Brian Kelsay]

Bradley Miller wrote:

> I've got a P233 Toshiba with 96Mb in it.  I found the new Mandrake 
> "Move" that allows you to boot from CD and access a USB storage 
> device.  It works pretty slick -- has Openoffice 1.1 and configures 
> the network and works flawlessly.  I even found the Minolta QMS 2300DL 
> and printed to it from CUPS.  I tried the CD on my laptop and it kind 
> of groaned and managed to sort of boot up.  The graphics were crap and 
> it was very slow -- the Mandrake "Move" requires at least 128Mb of 
> memory.  Does anyone know of a similar distro that will boot up and 
> occupy less space?  

Try the new version of DamnSmallLinux or the derivative Flonix.  
DamnSmall has a new restore option, which allows you to save your config 
to a USB pen drive.  When you boot, type "knoppix restore" and it goes 
to the pen drive to get desktop settings, favorites, home dir, etc.   
http://www.damnsmalllinux.org

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