Installing Ubuntu from floppy + network

[cj]

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 21:42 +0100, Liam Proven wrote:
> I have an old machine I'd like to try Ubuntu on. I'm planning on
> starting with a bare minimal install and adding X and so on myself, by
> hand.
> 
> It's an IBM Thinkpad 701C "Butterfly" - the mini-laptop with a folding keyboard.
> 
> I used to have Debian on this machine; I know it works and can be done.
> 
> The snag is, I only have a SCSI CD-ROM drive for it, attached by a
> PCMCIA SCSI card - an Adaptec/NewMedia BusToaster. (I can't remember
> if this is the aha152x_cs or sym53c500_cs version. I have a nasty
> feeling it's the latter.)
> 
> Additionally, I only have PCMCIA Ethernet: a 3Com 3C589. The machine
> doesn't have built-in Ethernet.
> 
> So I need a boot floppy that can load enough of Ubuntu to activate
> either my SCSI card and SCSI CD, or my 3Com Ethernet.
> 
> Is this doable, or should I be looking at using Loadlin from DOS, or
> should I just stick with Debian?
> 
> -- 

ubuntu basically is debian.. debian is ubuntus origin. most of the
software you find for ubuntu _may_ be in the ubuntu repositories (dont
quote me on that, i know alot of debian stuff doesnt work on ubuntu)


--cj

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