I have this old 486 laptop that has no cdrom or network connection (yet) and I put a slackware based tiny distro on it. it is from an abandoned distro however there are packages out there for it. I also put it on this old IBM Eduquest 486 with 8 mb ram. The laptop has 8 mb also. There is also a tiny X for it also but I haven't tried that. Anyway here is the url for the tiny distro!! http://tiny.seul.org/ It works for me!! Terry