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brockp
08-25-2003, 06:04 PM
Hey all you linux people welcome a new one to your ranks. :cool: Cant be happyer to be here.
But I have a IDEA!!!!
I have a old 486 laptop, that has windozzz 3.1 on it and it only has a floppy drive no network or any type of interface only serial. and the 3.5 floppy. Does anyone know whare i can download a old linux distro that installs off floppy images? like red hat 1.0 or somthign like that?
I looked around red hats old ftp mirrors and found distros form 9 to 1.0 but nothign apperd to be for floppy only cd any ideas? anyone have a old one around? Thanks
MasonS
08-25-2003, 06:06 PM
There's something like 4,000 threads on this topic here. Do a search. You can also go here:
http://old.lwn.net/Distributions/
do_guh_new
08-26-2003, 01:03 AM
you can go take a look over at www.distrowatch.com and look for floppy distros, they're out there
Floppy distros are good, but DeLi Linux or Vector Linux should run on your machine quite happily. Also, check out Slackware and Debian. I'm afraid the easier distros won't run on older machines, so you might be a bit confused at first:(
CaptainPinko
08-27-2003, 09:21 PM
all you need is boot disc and then you could get a distro from a cd....rom drive on a another computer (use a knoppix cd if you have no other *nix boxen)
el Muerté
08-28-2003, 06:08 PM
it only has a floppy drive no network or any type of interface
all you need is boot disc and then you could get a distro from a cd....rom drive on a another computer how? no network, no cdrom
Originally posted by brockp
Hey all you linux people welcome a new one to your ranks. :cool: Cant be happyer to be here.
But I have a IDEA!!!!
I have a old 486 laptop, that has windozzz 3.1 on it and it only has a floppy drive no network or any type of interface only serial. and the 3.5 floppy. Does anyone know whare i can download a old linux distro that installs off floppy images? like red hat 1.0 or somthign like that?
I looked around red hats old ftp mirrors and found distros form 9 to 1.0 but nothign apperd to be for floppy only cd any ideas? anyone have a old one around? Thanks
Is not recommended that you install an older version of any distro.
How much ram? Honestly I would use it as a console only box.
sharth
08-28-2003, 07:12 PM
debian will install and run on that computer... and i think slack has a floppy install as well.
deanrantala
08-28-2003, 09:29 PM
You could definately get Slack on there with the floppy boot disks. And I belive the "zip slack" version is available in an "all floppy" install set.
You coud get iceWM or blackbox to run on there pretty good, maybe even windowmaker. But, I doubt Gnome or KDE. If you do get it going, I would definately recomend a custom kernel. Although it would probably take a couple days to compile on that thing. But it would really be worth it:)