I would try Peanut Linux. http://www.ibiblio.org/peanut/howto.txt
I just ordered their CD for $4.99 from cheapbytes.com
It includes everything you mentioned ... the following text is from
their Web site.
"The complete system...
peanut.bz2 <The complete linux system ext2 or DOS install 48mb>
vmlinuz <Kernel v2.2.19, the kernel supports IDE and SCSI hard drives>
The kernel has math-coprocessor support for CPU'S 386sx and above, that
don't have a built in coprocessor. You need at least a 386 CPU to run Peanut
Linux."
Doc
> I'm a 'po boy with a 486 I want to put LINUX on. I have a 1 gig hard
> drive, with a 300 meg partition dedicated to Caldera Dos 7.03 and Windows
> 3.1. The other 700 I've partitioned for LINUX. The monitor is a VGA, but
> not SVGA I don't think.
> I've tried various flavors of LINUX over the past couple of years.
> What with holding down a day job and having to deal with the trials and
> tribs of life on a "mostly harmless" planet, I've maybe put in two weeks
> of man hours. I tried Caldera 2.3, but couldn't navigate around the
> installation menu.
> Red Hat 6.2 I had to use text mode in the installation program, but
> when I finally got to the last screen and tried to kick off installation,
> it said it couldn't recognize my Linux partition. I had Debian on before
> that and Caldera, but couldn't figure out how to download enough to do
> anything with.
> I got Caldera 1.3 loaded, and LISA set up so I could boot either my
> DOS/WIN 3 or Linux partitons. Couldn't get the dialer to log onto my ISP
> so I could run NETSCAPE.
> A fellow who's a friend of a used PC shop worker suggested
> Slackware, and said the latest version should do all right. I'm still
> trying to install it, and pick and choose packages to install so I can
> get enough, but not too much.
> All I wanna do with LINUX is run NETSCAPE (I have a 56K modem on COM
> 2, FYI), and use a word processor. I'd like one with a dictionary you can
> add to, with the capability to import ASCII text files of unlimited size.
> It would have to let me use various sized text fonts, and it would be
> great if I could edit PDF files. I hear tell that LINUX beats the pants
> offa windows. A friend of mine has a PC with windows 98, and you have to
> lean on the NORTON system protector to recover from software crashes at
> least every other week, maybe more.
>
> Thanx in advance,
> Frank Starr
> Tampa, Florida
>
>
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