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

[Charles Shapiro]

Ooh, I installed Puppy on a 64-MB machine, just slightly more modern than
what y'all are discussing (an E-Machines 733).  It has some idiosyncracies.
Everything runs as root, the application directory structure is a little
eccentric, and I had some Fun Times getting a web server to run on it. Plus
the latest & greatest scanner (SANE) package is broke.

That said, it does what I need on a seriously small machine, and I didn't
have any problems beyond what a little script hackery and careful reading
wouldn't fix.

-- CHS


On 1/30/08, H P Ladds <householdwords at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On Jan 29, 2008 9:31 AM,  <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?
>
> Can't forget about Puppy Linux. Below is a link to the Puppy Linux
> Discussion forum. It implies that Puppy2 is the way to go in your
> case.
>
>
> http://www.murga-linux.com/puppy/viewtopic.php?t=6996&sid=a3a050f969ef59860182ae0d49f589ee
>
> If you are going the thin client route, LTSP can work from a boot floppy.
>
> This article may help:
> http://news.zdnet.co.uk/hardware/0,1000000091,2132841,00.htm
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