>А нет ли сборок с меньшими требываниями к пмяти? Если консоли не боишься, то Trinix.
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/legacy/
Trinux will boot on any i486 or better with at least 12-16 megabytes of RAM, depending on how many packages are loaded
Trinux was a ramdisk-based Linux distribution that boots from a single floppy or CD-ROM, loads it packages from an HTTP/FTP server, a FAT/NTFS/ISO filesystem, or additional floppies
Development snapshots (meaning 10MB .iso's built on Linux 2.6.20.7 and Busybox 1.4.2) are also available at http://www.threatmind.net/ubuntutrinux