Stupid Question Part 2

[Lotsa Old Stuff]

Hey y'all,
First of all, this is a killer site. I thank whoever created it and mostly I thank all those who take a moment to help out us linux newbies. It's awesome.
I have a friend with a crappy laptop he inherited from his old job. It has limited resources, the worst deficiency being that it does not have a CD-ROM.
Because of low resources, my friend wants more control over his system and would like to install linux. Is there a way to do this without a CD or Internet access.
In other words, is there (gasp) a floppy installation of ANY distribution of linux?

Thanks a mil.

Aaron.

[scanez]

Yes, a google search for linux floppy distro turned up some for me ;) Most of these are probably meant to be used as firewalls/gateways, but there may be some other more general ones. Still, I don't think there's a way to use only floppies to install a full distribution...only these small distros

[slacker_x]

How limited is the hardware?
what does he want to do with the laptop?

[Lotsa Old Stuff]

The laptop in question is an old Toshiba 100cs. It has a floppy drive and that is all for input. It has Win95 on it. My friend was trying to do a direct cable connection through the paralel port, but was unable to to find a copy of 95. It has a 75mhz pentium and 32megs of ram that the OS is only recognixing as 8megs. He wants to know if moving up to Linux would give him any more functionality and if the performance would be better.

Thanks a lot

http://www.symmetrydirect.com/pmyers because life is to short!

[slacker_x]

From what I have heard, running X on a computer with only 32 megs of ram is not a pleasant experience. I could be wrong since I have never tried it.

[Lotsa Old Stuff]

Hey,
Thanks a lot for all your help. I'll talk it over with my friend and he'll have to decide how he feels about the issues involved.

You guys are all awesome.

Sincerely,
Aaron