Installing Ubuntu from floppy disk?

[Ashley Benton]

It seems that you are right I have a quantum pro drive lps and another hard
drive of 850 mb  but  it doesn't make the  2 gb  require. I will buy another
hard drive before to try. Thanks again
Meg

On Nov 22, 2007 9:09 PM, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:

> 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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