Installing Ubuntu from floppy disk?

[Ashley Benton]

I have no idea and don't know where to look. I'll try to find out. Thanks
for the reminder
Meg

On Nov 22, 2007 9:03 PM, David Vincent <dvincent at sleepdeprived.ca> wrote:

> Ashley Benton wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I have a very old computer using windows 3.1 and not really working. I
> > wanted to install Ubuntu on it for my son. This computer has only a
> > floppy drive and apparently no programs to go on internet. Is it
> > possible to install Ubuntu from floppy disks? How do I create the floppy
> > disks? If I try to move a copy of my ubuntu cd inside the floppy disk,
> > Ubuntu tells me that there is not enough space. Any advice would be
> > welcome.
>
> How big is the hard drive in that machine?  Nothing I had back in that
> day had anything near the 2+gb required for Ubuntu to be installed.
>
> I've already seen some suggestions about getting USB CDROM drives etc.,
> before you go that far do you have the space to install Ubuntu on there?
>
> -d
>
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