I have a pentium II (that's right, pentium II) with a scant 200MB of ram. This was a high-end workstation in it's day. The machine currently runs dos on a raid array, and I need to pull some data from it. I figure my best chance at this is to use a linux live cd to copy the data to one of our active directory network shares (there is a network card in the machine).
Unfortunately, my linux skills are abysmal, so I'm not sure where to get started:
- Where should I look to find a linux cd that will run well on such an old system
- Since I'm likely gonna need to be command-line only, what do I need to do to configure the network card and mount the network share via the command line?
- Bonus points: exact syntax needed to copy and convert the entire volume for use in VMware server 2.0, but really just copying all the data should be enough.
Best Answer
Puppy Linux is pretty much the go-to Linux for this. It itself is only 100 MB.
Damn Small Linux is only 50MB but its developer abandoned the project for Tiny Core which is only 10MB.
Puppy is the easiest, though.