thats what i have top work with. i have been asked to install linux and ser onto a telphone system with 8 meg of ram. i was hopeing that one of you had some insight into this. i have been thinking about tinylinux but their ftp has been down for a while now ftp://tinylinux.sourceforge.net/ <ftp://tinylinux.sourceforge.net/> so are their alternitives? thanks. and has anyone else been faced with a problem simler to this? Alex Wood