I have some old compaq p1's that have 2 gig hard drives and no cdrom. I need to get a graphical version of linux on them somehow and am looking for some help. The bios is to old to boot of cd so I need something on floppies. Any help is apreciated.

For floppy based distros: http://freshmeat.net/browse/1013/

There's also other ways of getting linux on them, you could put the HD's in another PC to install, network install, temporarily install a CD drive etc www.damnsmalllinux.org is popular for older hardware

It has to be on floppies and I need something with a web browser, word processing, and maybe excel and powerpoint.

Your going to need allot of floppies to fit all that on !

All you need to do is to copy the boot image from your cdrom to a floppy, and then boot from that. You can use rawrite in windows or dd in Unix. Sometimes, it requires more than one floppy. Here's how I did it for someone who wanted to install Red Hat 9: (I created the image within FreeBSD). 1. mount /cdrom 2. cd /cdrom/images 3. dd if=bootdisk.img of=/dev/fd0 I booted the floppy on the friend's pc, pressed enter at the linux: prompt, and Red Hat found the cdrom and began installation as normal. Most distros have a boot image ending with a .img extension. Checking SuSE 9.0, it was just called "bootdisk". SuSE 9.2 looks loke it has 3 images: bootdisk1, bootdisk2, bootdisk3. So, as long as you have room on your hard disk, you shouldn't have to settle for a small version of Linux.

Sorry. I overlooked the fact that you DON'T have a cdrom! Hee-hee. My bad.