Troy Dawson wrote:

> Hi Tom,
> As Connie said, if it is a pure pentium, then S.L. won't install on it 
> because of the kernel, but CentOS will.  But if it is a pentium II, 
> then I'd definatly say go with S.L. and use ice.
> Ice was designed to be very lightweight.  It generally takes somewhere 
> around 56k of memory.  The whole rpm itself is only 1.5 Meg, and that 
> is including icons.
> You can get icewm out of the dag repository if you find you have to go 
> the CentOS route.
> Troy


What about Redhat 7.3?

Also, a CD-distribution such as Knoppix or Helix may work well for the 
serial-console application.

-Luke