I'm planning to install some flavor of linux on an old Toshiba 425CDT laptop. This laptop has "only" 8M RAM, so a normal SuSE install seems to be not possible. I can get the system to boot off a floppy, but I get errors from Yast (any version) when it tries to do it's thing, most likely due to low memory. All I need is a minimal install. The laptop is going to be used as a data-gathering and monitoring system for a weather station and solar power generator. It'll be attached to a LAN and be running a web server and some custom cgi (perl) scripts. At this point I'm not even sure if I'll be putting X on it, though I might run Perl/Tk scripts on it with the gui/windows on another computer over the LAN. So anyway, is there an easy way to get a -minimal- (kernel, networking, and rpm for apache & perl) SuSE on this computer? I have CDs for 7.1 and 6.1, and I guess I could hack something together easily enough from them to get the job done. I'm just wondering if it might be easier still to start with another distro in the first place. Anyone done this sort of thing before? Any suggestions? TIA, -John