What's a minimal install for Linux? 6 reasons it can come in handy ...

Back in the early days of Linux, there were multiple floppy disk distributions. They made handy rescue or tinkering environments, and they packed in a surprising amount of useful stuff. But a version ...

I have a X20 IBM laptop, and was going to install Red hat on it since I knew I could copy the iso's on a fat partition and boot the boot disk kernel, also on the fat partition, through grub.

i have mandrake 8.1 on cd, but the pc i want to put it on (comcrap) boots off the floppy at startup (and i can't get into the bios cuz i installed a new hdd which i did not put compaqs setup utility ...