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

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Thu Jan 31 06:57:52 EST 2008


On Wed January 30 2008, H P Ladds wrote:
> 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=a3a050f969ef59860
>182ae0d49f589ee
>
> If you are going the thin client route, LTSP can work from a boot floppy.

nice!
I was able to download puppy ( all 88 Mb ), boot it on my laptop, create a 
bootable USB stick, and boot from it. I'm not familiar with ALL the apps it 
runs, but it looks pretty full-featured!

-- 
Paul Cartwright
Registered Linux user # 367800
Registered Ubuntu User #12459



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