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What's a good, small (1-6 floppydisks) Linux distro for a 386 laptop?

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Elledan

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So far I've already seen quite a few, like DLX, Pocket Linux and Monkey Linux. Monkey Linux seems to be of a reasonable size (5 floppies) and quite complete, but it's outdated (latest release in '97).

I do not intend to run any graphical stuff on this laptop (doh 😛), so no X-server is needed.

Any suggestions are welcome.

Specifications:

386 SX, 20 MHz
1.6 MB RAM (640 kb base, 1024 kb ext.)
80 MB HD
b/w LCD display, VGA 640x480
3.5" floppy drive
 
You'll need to look at a specialized distro as the standard kernel isn't happy with less than 4MB of RAM. most of those that will work are floppy based as I recall
 
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