Old Laptop Distro???

[Alma J Wetzker]

I listen avidly to the new distro's that abound.  I have a question:

I have an old compaq armada (4131T) with 80 MB of RAM and a 4 GB drive.  It 
will not boot from the CD.  I want to set it up to X into a faster machine. 
What distro should I put on it?

I gather that I need to, at least, start with a 2.4 kernel (2.6 will not fit 
on a floppy.)  It runs 802.11B and needs to pickup that card.  It does not 
have cardbus but the old PCMCIA 16-bit slot.  There are no USB connections.

I was thinking of slack but is there a better way?  All I really need it to be 
is an X-terminal.

(A suggestion or two on HOW to get it done would be helpful also.)

     -- Alma