[ale] Getting Linux on an old laptop with only floppy drive and 100 MB Iomega zip drive

zeb n4zm at mindspring.com
Tue Jan 29 11:11:45 EST 2008


The "factory" set of Slackware disks includes something called "ZipSlack".  I 
have not tried it, but it is said to be a version of Slackware that will run 
from a Zip disk.

Regards, Zeb

On Tuesday 29 January 2008 09:31, dhhoward at comcast.net wrote:
> I've got an old Win98 Toshiba satellite that I want to put Linux on, but no
> CD ROM drive and no Internet, but I can get it to talk to an old Iomega 100
> MB Zip drive.  Any way to take an Ubuntu CD-ROM iso image and chop it up
> into 100 MB chunks for copying to the laptop or installing from the Zip
> drive?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel
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