> > Minix would run great on a machine like that. (it even runs on a 286). Actually, Minix will run on an XT with only 640k of memory... > > Unfortunately, there are not very many applications for minix, and the > installation is primarily manual. The only problem I can see if he ran Minix on it, is lack of ethernet support. Minix only supports a handfull of ethernet cards, none of them PCMCIA, that I know of. One could check the hardware compat list to be sure. > I also believe (last I checked), it is not free. It's probably been a while since you last checked. Minix was re-released under the BSD license about a year ago. > I hate to say it, but you might be best off using DOS. Being a > responsible Linux geek also requires admiting areas where Linux > probably wouldn't be so hot... I have to agree here. If you can get DOS to see your ethernet card, you'd pretty much be set. There's probably even an ssh port :) Gabe -- -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Gabe Turner | X-President, UNIX Systems Administrator, | Assoc. for Computing Machinery U of M Supercomputing Institute for | University of Minnesohta Digital Simulation and Advanced Computation | dopp at acm.cs.umn.edu "Get out of my trash! I'm telling you for the last time! A man works hard for his filth, just to have vagrants steal it. It's a cryin' shame." - George Liquor in "The Boy Who Cried Rat!" --------------------------------------------------------------------------------