on tue NUMBER aug NUMBER jon wrote i has just been given an old toshiba csNUMBER with earliest pentium and NUMBERmb of hd but only a floppy drive on it its got winNUMBER NUMBER which is funny to see again but gonna be cleared as soon as i stop messing with it what i was wondering was could anyone advise what o s would be good for this i want a small usable nix distro for it that i can transfer to it fom floppy connecting this to winblows i know that winblows allows pier to pier connections over serial and parellel ports to other winblows but is this easy do for connecting winblows to nix have done exactly this with debian only i used a pcmcia network card and did it off URL ucd bandwidth is rather good however if you ve another machine look into this null modem cable jobby URL whether you can connect that to direct cable connectioni ve no idea you could however put the files onto windows boot onto a ilug bbc tm and mount the fatNUMBER partition easier quicker way is to get your hands on a pcmcia nic also makes the maptop far more useful in the long run gavin irish linux users group ilug URL URL for un subscription information list maintainer listmaster URL 