Need to find a distro that's 500mb.

[mjaleo]

I need to install off of my 512 mb thumbdrive.

Any Mandrake/Fedora/Other newbie friendly distro that will fit?

I don't mind going back to an older version, as long as I can update it.

If you can provide a link, I'd really appreciate it.

Thanks guys.

[budman7]

Try www.distrowatch.com There are lots of distros that are less than 512 MB.
If you have a fast internet connection. You can try a network install. I have never done this myself, but I have read that it can be done.

[mjaleo]

Try www.distrowatch.com There are lots of distros that are less than 512 MB.
If you have a fast internet connection. You can try a network install. I have never done this myself, but I have read that it can be done.

I don't know how to use distrowatch to find one that's under 512.

I really want KDE too.. Hm.

[budman7]

When you get to www.distrowatch.com look on the right hand side. You will see a bunch of OSes listed there. You wil just have to click on them, to see the sizes. They also have a list of packages that come with each distro if you page down.

I have heard good things about Vector Linux, but it doesn't come with Kde. At least not in the 4.3 version.

You can go to http://kde.org and dl it yourself..
Hope this helps.

Do you have a cd-rom? If you do, you can go to www.linuxcd.org they have linux cd's really cheap. $1.99 and up.

[mjaleo]

Guys thanks anyway, I'm just going to wait until I get home and can use the CD burner-- this machine is having trouble booting from my thumb drive anyway.