[NBLUG/talk] OS Alternatives.

[Steve Johnson]

I have a Dell Latitude XPi (Pentium 100) with 32 Megs of ram and a 2gig 
hard drive.  I tried to do a network install (no cdrom) of RH 9.0 and 
well it tries to intall but goes real real slow, when I switch the 
consol over to see what its doing its getting DMA time out errors when 
trying to access the drive..  So anyways...

I made a windows 95 boot disk, booted up and formatted the drive just 
fine under windows.. So I am wondering if Linux doesn't like this laptop 
  =) Anyone have any experience with this?

The main point of posting this is, I want to put a OS on this laptop 
that I can install with out a CDROM.  Anyone know of any small OS's that 
support PCMCI and networking (TCP/IP)?  I would love to just put linux 
on it but my 2 attempts failed =/

-Steve