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Porteus runs in under 300mb and runs nicely off a cheap USB stick or CDR while having all the basics including a Desktop GUI.

http://www.porteus.org/

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I though in that. I love that distribution it's excellent but it has it problems. I wouldn't recommend to "install" it in a hard drive as probably wants OP.

I ended up using 25 gigs to install Puppy Linux.

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