donated computers lab setup

[Geoffrey Leach]

On 12.27 13:59, Tom Poe wrote:
> I recently received 10 computers from an organization that wants them  
> put to use.  They're PI and PII boxes, which surely can be useful in  
> many ways.  First thing, though, I need to see how many actually  
> work.  Then I need to have a barebones OS to put on them.  If the  
> drives work, they'll be really small.  Any suggestions?  Anyone doing  
> something similar?

There are a number of distos designed to minimize disk requirements.  
For example, http://www.damnsmalllinux.org/. If the BIOSs support  
booting from CD, I'd try that with a live CD -- Knopix, for example.