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Burning ISOs in Nero

DO NOT UNZIP THE ISO PACKAGE.
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How about Damn Small Linux?

It is under 50 MB, has good detection, and comes with Firefox, a nice painting program, an Excel clone, and a bunch of other cool stuff! Put it on a hard drive, bootable CD (which doubles as an installation CD), and even a USB drive!

It will also work on anyIBM compatible that is a 486 or better.
Warranty-Voiding fun!

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If you do go for DSL. Be aware that you will be reinstalling the OS every few months. DSL's development is that speratic and the project doesnt offer a way to upgrade. Personally I'd say if you're going to use it make two partitions (storage and swap) and run form cd, as DSL does have a feature to load your settings in after bootup.
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