Check out the big info here:
http://www.flexistentialist.org/flex...s/000118.shtml
In a nutshell, I was able to fully install YDL 2.3 onto my stock 8100. KDE and XFree86 worked fine, but were too slow to be effective, so I ditched them in favor of a purely CLI interface. The machine has been up and running for a few days now serving apache, sshd and proftpd.
Disk space was my biggest issue, but that could be easily solved with a slightly larger harddrive. I was able to fit a fully functional install onto the stock 700mb harddrive, I just had to be very judicious about the packages I installed, and used the 'df -h' command regularly.
Hopefully this gives someone else a hand in putting some use to these old machines. My friend has a pile of seven 7100s that are now begging to have this done to them.
Peace,
phidauex
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