Hello! I want to install Linux RH 7.2 on a Compact Flash 64Mb in size . Can anyone suggest me how to install it . The min size of Linux is near 300Mb+ .So after getting some info on net ,i installed linux on a hard drive ,but the linux crashes with a kernel panic message , i think it's because of the flah disk on which i created a EX3FS .To go into linux i use the e-disk which i created at installation . (But i am able to access the flash drive which is mounted as /flash). I recomplied the kernel and copied the result files i.e BzImage,System.map to the /boot which i created on the flash drive .But i don't still get it how to make my flash drive bootable (I tried to create entries in lilo.conf and later run the lilo command ,i get a warning message that disk at 0x80 may not be recognised by Bios . And on next reboot i get a message L which is some LILO error). So can anyone please help me in simplify the process of installing linux on a Compact flash (IDE) 64 Mb ?? .

The min size of Linux is near 300Mb+ You can get floppy disk based distros like freesco as well as other ones designed for small instalations (eg peanut and damn small linux). Slackware also do a zip disk based distro (although that's a little bigger than your 64Mb)....it all depends on what you plan to use it for and install.