How about Deb-ham / Deb-amateur (on the lines of deb-med) It _is_ a cut down Debian. There's no reason, apart from memory why you shouldn't take something like Gibraltar (runs entirely from CD, can copy config to floppy), Demolinux or Knoppix - add _all_ the ham programs and give it out as one disk fits all. Alternatively, use 100M for a Zip disk style distro or 100M on CD with a loop file system of some sort. I have a 386 laptop with 4M, no CD and a mono screen. It runs Debian 2.0 base in 60M disk. If you want a basis for a contest logger, it may be best to start back there. I have the same model with 8M (bought for £20 rather than £999!) which might run something better but probably not woody. The Toshiba, with soundcard and 12M memory would probably run woody badly. I don't have an external CDROM and only the Tosh has PCMCIA so I'd need a boot floppy and PLIP to install but it would be a _great_ use for hardware most people would throw away. Just my 0.02 Euro / 2 cents Andy G0EVX
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