Sure enough, I got a minimal Linux system installed (after backing up my critical data) just in time to delete and reinstall a full system.  My work on the Kylix book isn’t entirely finished–we have to get the source code ready to post on the book’s web site.  Sure, I could manually install the X Window system and all of the required stuff, but I’m not ready to tackle that one yet.  So repartition and reinstall SuSE 7.0.

My minimal Linux experiment will have to wait a while.  Perhaps I’ll find some desk space for my old 486 box, and install Linux there.