Installing Ubuntu from floppy disk?

[CJ Kelley]

ok so for something like that, you may consider puppy linux.

--cj

On Nov 23, 2007 9:19 PM, Ashley Benton <meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
> Yes I have been looking today until I messed up my computer by rebooting it
> and forgetting the floppy drive in. I'm just looking for something that
> would allows my son to open Firefox and play his games on Internet. For that
> he needs a GUI. Maybe as suggested he could use my computer with the remote
> desktop. Anyway, I've got some troubles trying to put the system that I
> found on a floppy disk. The floppy disk doesn't seem to do anything so I
> guess I did something wrong when trying to copy the system to the floppy
> disk. I'll try again tomorrow. If anybody knows which system I should try
> and how to put it on the floppy disk your help is welcome. I don't know if
> it is important but when I turn the computer on I am in DOS. I need to write
> win to be in Windows maybe that's why the floppy that I tried to make didn't
> work.
> Thanks
> Meg
>
>
>
> On Nov 23, 2007 10:13 PM, CJ Kelley <debiani386 at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > On 11/22/07, Robert Persson <ireneshusband at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > On Nov 22, 2007 6:20 PM, Ashley Benton < meggalen at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > 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
> > > >
> > >
> > > Ubuntu may not be your best bet. You might do well to go to
> > > http://www.linux.org and try to find a distribution more suited to the
> > > capabilities of the machine. You will certainly be able to find a few
> > > that boot from floppies and are relatively gentle on memory etc.
> > > Consider installing an ultra-lightweight gui such as fluxbox.
> > >
> > > As someone has already said, if you can get an old network card (I'm
> > > assuming you've got either PCI or ISA slots on the machine), that
> > > would be the best way to go. I'd ask for one on your local freecycle
> > > if you have one for where you live. Failing that, you should be able
> > > to do an install via a parallel or serial cable. It will be slow
> > > though.
> > >
> > > Robert
> >
> >
> > Right. Ubuntu would run very very poorly on a win3.1 machine. If i were
> you, id google something like 486 compatible linux distros or something like
> that. Note that the distro you may find may have an old kernel.
> >
> > besides, some of the distros that are build for the older machines may
> even fit on 1 or two floppies. Consider BasicLinux (takes up 2 floppies and
> requires 12mb ram to boot). Its just a basic distro which provides a shell
> and an Xserver if you are a more graphically inclined person.
> >
> > If you want something more advanced, try TinyLinux. Its not a debian
> distro, its just a 386/486 optimized version of slackware. You have to
> install it though, but it doesnt take much hdd at all (it fit just perfectly
> on my 300 mb hdd)
> >
> > I hear that debian sarge has been run on a 486, but idk it would probably
> run really slow.
> >
> > --cj
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