my purpose is to setup linux in as small as possible space in my memory stick and boot my old p4 computer with 128mb RAM and xp installed. i dont want to remove xp. and as i have low disk space i...

Ubuntu Release 8.04 (hardy)
Kernel Linux 2.6.24-23-generic
GNOME 2.22.3

Please help me.

I am satisfied with JBENNET . Thanks a lot.

but the user password doesnt work

now i dont know mine password also.
Is that the administrator password or i can set other ? how can i set password?

now i can share my folders but i cant access others shared folders. it ask for username domain and password. where username is already filled with mine domain is also filled.
now the asked password...

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when i try to share a folder "Tools" from a NTFS partition /media/Backup i get this information
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot share path /media/Backup/Tools as...

i cant get ubuntu box or xp

can i get more information about installing smaller distro
or what can i do with only command line. could i be able to boot any new computer.

I am usung ubuntu ultimate edition

firstly it used to ask password to authenticate the drive.
But i have made to remember password and auto authenticate the drive. Then it do so.
Now i want it to ask password for authentication at...

what is the minimum space of pen-drive required to install ubuntu in a pen-drive.
ubuntu may be of earlier version

i just want to share a folder to lan from ubuntu such that my friends in this lan can visit my shared folder

i have ubuntu 8.10 .
how can share any folder from a drive such that every person in lan network computer can see that.
(in xp we can just share in one right click)
but how can we share in...