[ale] Getting Linux on an old laptop with only floppy drive and 100 MB Iomega zip drive
Mike Harrison
meuon at geeklabs.com
Tue Jan 29 11:37:51 EST 2008
> 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?
If it's an older laptop, Ubuntu might be a little heavy.
I've re-purposed a couple of old machines wuth DSL - Dang Small Linux
and been impressed.
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