Which OS to choose?

[mofo]

I have a very small 2.5" ide flashdrive, only 800 mb in size. I like it because it is so resistant to shocks, vibrations and extreme temperatures. Also since there are no moving parts it is dead silent.
Anyways, i would like to mount it in my laptop, a celeron 650 mhz with 360 mb of RAM. I was wondering what you all think would be an appropriate OS for this set up? I am thinking of keeping only the required system files on this drive, and for everything else i will have an external HD and storage devices.
All i want to do mainly with this box is to transfer videos from my camcorder to my PC. No editing, just capture.
So far i am thinking W2K might fit the space requirements, but also i have been tempted to try linux, but which version? Which OS would you choose?

[kram 2.0]

I'm actually thinking Win2000 should be perfect. My desktop runs Celeron 500 with 384 MB SDRAM and runs Win98SE smoothly - must be the extra RAM making the difference.

Hope that helps,
kram

[EMC]

W2K Pro would be my preference except that 800 MB will not hold the basic OS and a few installed (on other drives) Apps that place necessary files on the boot drive. My W2K SP 4 takes up 1 GB with the pagefile.sys on another physical drive (I have three physical drives and five partitions) and the Driver Cache moved (requires Registry edit) to my D: drive.

[EMC]

W2K Pro would be my preference except that 800 MB will not hold the basic OS and a few installed (on other drives) Apps that place necessary files on the boot drive. My W2K SP 4 takes up 1 GB with the pagefile.sys on another physical drive (I have three physical drives and five partitions) and the Driver Cache moved (requires Registry edit) to my D: drive.

[kram 2.0]

Welcome to PC Mech forums EMC

Well, I did overlook the HDD for a sec - that might cause some trouble with Win2K. I think a HDD upgrade is definately necessary to go beyond Win98SE now...you might want to consider that.


Hope that helps,
kram