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I have an older model laptop with only a floppy drive, 20Mb mem & 520Mb HD. With the aid of a Parallel port ZIP drive & my desktop machine, with CD & ZIP drive I'm trying to install Linux on the laptop. Success has been achieved with HAL91, Mulinux & Zipslack. These are all fine in their way but I'm more ambitious & would like a distro which would run python, perl tcl etc and more ambitiously a minimal X window system. Several version of RedHat have been tried. These all offer a Hard drive install but no matter how the files are installed on the HD of the laptop they are never regonised as a redhat installation path by the install. Using <ALT> F2 during this process it seems that an ext2 filesytem is being checked. Without linux being installed I can't see how the files could be transfered to an ext2 file system! Caldera Open Linux has also been tried but stumbles because the filenames are truncated to the DOS limit of 11 characters. I even installed WIN95 on the laptop but this too truncates the filenames. Can anyone recommend a distro which would meet my needs &/or help me to circumnavigate the hurdles I've encountered so far. My expertise is not up to any serious hacking, using rawrite to create a boot floppy, and being confident enough to use FDISK is about my limit. Trevor Sansom ____________________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.co.uk address at http://mail.yahoo.co.uk or your free @yahoo.ie address at http://mail.yahoo.ie -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG Mail majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxx with "unsubscribe list" in the message body to unsubscribe.