>hello everyone,
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>Thanks a lot for the help last time, but then I was working on something else, now I'm back to the Linux again *fear*
NO Fear! :)


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>I need suggestion now, I have to setup linux on some client machines that:
>(1)only use 5-10Mb disk space for the Linux files
>(2)stable,even pressing the power button would not cause any error after reboot
>(3)network support, can access files from server
>(4)the server can be NT, win2000, Novell or Linux (Linux is most important, I'll think about others after making Linux server works)

Requirement:
(1) no problem
(2) Any linux distro is stable, but you will have to have powermanagement in the bios to control the pressing of the power button, which is not the same as the three-fingered salute.
(3) no problem
(4) do a google on SAMBA

You are going in the right direction with ThinLinux. But, there are other distros of Linux that boots from a single floppy, too, but may require more work on your part. Here is an example:
http://www.geocities.com/ariyahidayat/essays/linux_in_floppy.htm
You can add to this as you need to.

Another vendor that makes an excellent thin "Unix" is here:
http://www.qnx.com


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>I'm very new to Linux, so it would be very hard for me to compile a kernel myself.


Compiling a kernel is like falling off a log, and is the best way to customize your installation. Focus on selecting modules in the kernel then, in your boot.local script you can add 'insmod ', or you can, as root, start and stop modules manually or under program control. See
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Kernel-HOWTO.html for instructions on installing the kernel source, setting the config file, and doing the actual compile, make modules, and installation.



>I already searched a distribution called ThinLinux, I can even use it to detect the network card and make it work, but it can't mount NFS sharings!

When you eliminate X-windows and don't run RHLinuxConf (RH), or YaST2 (SuSE) to setup the /etc/host.conf and other network config files, then you have to use pico or sed or vi to set them by hand, as root of course. As usual, there are howt-to's on setting up the network. See
http://www.linuxdoc.org/HOWTO/Net-HOWTO




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>Would you please give me some suggestions? Either on how to make the ThinLinux works, any other distributions that suits my needs, or even some documentations/tutorials that can help..
>Please give me as much info as you could (and willing to), I just dunno where should be my next step...

Good distros, like RH or SuSE, come with several manuals, each several hundred pages long, describing how to do what you want to do, specifically for their distro! (One of the advantages of buying them!)
Good luck.
JLK


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>Thanks in advace!
>Jimi

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