Installing Ubuntu from floppy disk?

[anthony baldwin]

CJ Kelley wrote:
> ok so for something like that, you may consider puppy linux.
>   

There's also Vector Linux and DSL (Damn Small Linux).
http://www.vectorlinux.com/ &  http://damnsmalllinux.org/ respectively.
I've run both of those on a PII 200mhz processor with
128mb ram, 500mb hdd, before, when I was building machines from spare 
donated parts
and donating them to students when I was teaching in public school.

/tony

> --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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