Just a note. There are a number of mini-distros on the net
already. Some of them are specialized (eg. router on a floppy) and
some are not. It should be easy to base your work on one of these
Look at www.freshmeat.net under distributions or something.

The *BSD OS's also take a more conservative approach than
most linux distributions. IB doesn't support BSD natively yet,
but (except for the v4.0 port), but it shouldn't be that hard.


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Reed Mideke
rfm(at)collectivecomputing.com