What distro goes best on a small partition?

Nooooobie · 09-25-2001, 09:14 AM

My system has a 515MB root partition. '/boot' is 14MB, and <swap> is 65MB. I don't need too much free space after everything is installed, because I can use a 3GB NTFS partition for storage. It's currently running a VERY minimal Mandrake. What distribution would be best for such a small disk? A GUI would be nice, but is not necessary.

dorward · 09-25-2001, 01:33 PM

You might like to try Debian, the base install can be put on 17 floppy disks.

You can install from a root, a rescue, and four driver disks and then get any other packages that you want over ftp with the apt-get program.

trickykid · 09-25-2001, 07:46 PM

you can try out peanut linux... i think a slim down verison is like 55 megs.. or you can try Thin Linux, Small Linux.....there are a bunch out there... you can check out most linux sites like www.linux.com or www.linux.org for lists of all distro's out there.

Aussie · 09-29-2001, 10:54 AM

You could try rolling your own...linux from scratch for the goods.