Hi, it would be possible to put any major distribution on that small drive, but would have to cut down on the amount of applications installed. For example if you don't install the x windows server, graphical desktops, and the apps that go with them you save about 900 mb right there. You mentioned slackware. Well if you wanted a nice system I'd pick these package sets. a, app, d, e, n, and y. You could further save yourself space by only picking the apps you wanted and installing those you do. If you were using Red Hat you would go through the custom setup, and unselect x, gnome, kde, mail servers, ftp servers, web server, etc, and just leave the text based client software, and then you would have a nice small Linux system. In any case I would always include the gcc compilers, perl, and the development stuff, because many apps for Linux are in source code only, and you need to run a simple make script to compile and install them. An example of an average from source install is: ./configure make make install Hope this helped.
