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

[Greg Freemyer]

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?
>
> Thanks,
> Daniel

No specific answer to your question, but I installed SUSE to an old
laptop over the weekend.

Gave me fits until I realized I had to boot off CD first and manually
create a primary partition and a small swap partition.  It was the
lack of a swap partition combined with my 128MB of ram that was
causing me issues.

Also, does your Toshiba have a USB connection?  I have booted numerous
newer computers from a usb connected CD/DVD and installed linux.
Mostly because a lot of our older machines don't have a DVD drive and
I'm too lazy to burn all the CDs.  The laptop I did over the weekend
would not boot off of the DVD, so I downloaded and burned the CD
install.  SuSE now has that as a single CD which was sort of nice.

Greg
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