[Ubuntu-PH] Install debian linux in floppies

[Re Alvarez]

yeah DSL and PuppyLinux are good options...but only suggested Xubuntu
because he needed Debian based distro.


-----Original Message-----
From: Allan E. Registos <allan.registos at smpc.steniel.com.ph>
Reply-To: Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)
<ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com>
To: Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)
<ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com>
Subject: Re: [Ubuntu-PH] Install debian linux in floppies
Date: Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:14:54 +0800

His laptop runs at the speed of 60MHz, and with only 48MB of RAM. I
think Xubuntu is not suitable for this old laptop.
At Xubuntu's site heres the minimum requirements:

Minimum system requirements

To run the Desktop CD (LiveCD + Install CD), you need 128 MB RAM to run
or 192 MB RAM to install. The Alternate Install CD only requires you to
have 64 MB RAM.
To install Xubuntu, you need 1.5 GB of free space on your hard disk.
Once installed, Xubuntu can run with 64 MB RAM, but it is strongly
recommended to have at least 128 MB RAM.

And Wilson has only 48MB not to mention the speed of  his CPU. He has
2.9GB of Hard Disk space, while Xubuntu needs 1.5GB of minimum free
space by default. Xubuntu needs to have at least a minimum of 128MB. If
he knows Debian well, and can install that distro from floppy images, I
may recommend these lightweight applications to be installed:
http://damnsmalllinux.org/applications.html

Allan


Re Alvarez wrote: 

> however you install...looking at the computer specs...I'd suggest you
> to use Xubuntu...just because it is based on XFCE. XFCE is light and
> perfectly suited for computers with old hardware, slower CPU speeds
> and lesser RAM.
> 
> Gnome or KDE which can run slow on your laptop.
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Barbon Wilson John <wjbarbon at yahoo.com>
> Reply-To: Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas (Philippines)
> <ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com>
> To: Mailing List para sa Ubuntu Pilipinas <ubuntu-ph at lists.ubuntu.com>
> Subject: [Ubuntu-PH] Install debian linux in floppies
> Date: Tue, 30 Oct 2007 20:16:11 -0700 (PDT)
> 
> I would like to ask the list if anybody can point me to a direction on
> how to install linux using floppies. I have an old IBM laptop, about
> 60 mhz and 48MB ram with 2.9 GB of HD. Its running windows 98 now.
> 
> I want to convert it to linux rig that would be capable of playing
> music and doing light wordprocessing. The problem is it only have a
> floppy disk drive and it has no networking capacity (no ethernet,
> modem). I once used a wifi PCMCIA card before to network it with the
> Internet.
> 
> Is there a linux dist with debian based that can fit into several
> floppies. Also that can have X server and blackbox as WM?
> 
> Thanks for any help.
> 
> Wilson
> 
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