<cite> > My main objective is to try and avoid software bloat. > The laptop is a P200/48Mram/6G harddrive. > I fear if I load RH7.2, the poor thing will just grind itself > into oblivion swapping desperately to try and shake the almighty > software bloat beast. And I will have 500MB left from my 6G drive > to play with :(. > > So I'd like to load an older distro and then do selective upgrades, > trying to avoid too much GUI bloat that cloggs the arteries. > Not sure if Debian is the solution, but its worth a look. </cite> I've installed RH 7.2 on a P200/64Mb/2Gb HDD without a hitch. A 'Workstation' install only takes about 1.2. Less if you don't install KDE, and stick with GNOME. Even less if you don't use either and use WindowMaker. I'm running a workstation install of RH 7.2 with KDE 2.2.2 on the P200 without problems. Samir M. Nassar RedConcepts.NET - http://redconcepts.net