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Need small version of linux

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Name: adpavel1
Date: March 17, 2005 at 17:22:47 Pacific
Subject: Need small version of linux
OS: xp pro
CPU/Ram: athlon xp 2100+

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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.

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Response Number 1

Name: 3Dave
Date: March 18, 2005 at 02:38:06 Pacific
Subject: Need small version of linux

Reply: (edit)

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

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Response Number 2

Name: totty (by allan_totty)
Date: March 18, 2005 at 08:04:34 Pacific
Subject: Need small version of linux

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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

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Response Number 3

Name: adpavel1
Date: March 18, 2005 at 12:21:13 Pacific
Subject: Need small version of linux

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

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Response Number 4

Name: totty (by allan_totty)
Date: March 21, 2005 at 02:28:37 Pacific
Subject: Need small version of linux

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

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Response Number 5

Name: unixhead
Date: March 21, 2005 at 16:56:54 Pacific
Subject: Need small version of linux

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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.

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Response Number 6

Name: unixhead
Date: March 21, 2005 at 16:59:41 Pacific
Subject: Need small version of linux

Reply: (edit)

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

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