you can shoehorn a mini-itx into the strangest things. Have a look at http://www.mini-itx.com - see the projects section. All of them need Puppy.

Well in case anyone else wants to try this and can't see that amazing deluge of answers (!), I can confirm that this does indeed work. You need to get sshd working and put the line /usr/sbin/sshd in /etc/rc.d/rc.local Then get the usr_devx.sfs to enable source code compiling, and copy this to / Then...

Just one quick question - how do you get the ftp server to start automatically on boot? (with a hd install) - probably a cryptic command in /etc/rc.d/local no doubt.

Thanks

Alan

After many weeks of anguish I've found a distro which is stable on my via Epia 500 and I'm very very happy - it will eventually be an audio only media box, but its other purpose is for backups. Firstly I can confirm that the instructions for hard drive install on hda1 do indeed work. I changed the &...