Installing Ubuntu from floppy disk?

[CJ Kelley]

What kind of computer are you running BTW (like what kind of hardware
does it have installed?)

--cj

On Nov 24, 2007 8:53 AM, anthony baldwin <anthony.baldwin01 at comcast.net> wrote:
> 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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