Re: Distro Recommendation

["Jason Schindler" <jschind@wolfteck.com>]

"only one removable media drive per boot." - What drives do you have
available?  If you have a cdrom, have you tried booting from the cd?

Either way, I would reccomend debian as well.  I have a P166 (Micron Transport
XPE) laptop running debian.  The floppy install is pretty nice to you.  If you
have to use floppys, you can install the base system from floppys, switch
media, and then restart the installer (I think the command is simply:
"setup").  The biggest pro is that it will only install what you ask it to.  I
am currently running X11 with openbox3, qiv, and fbpanel via a custom .xinitrc
file.

Tom Dison (fretinator@yahoo.com) wrote:
>
> When I have only a floppy available, I usually use
> debian. The floppy-based installer does a good job of
> detecting most pcmcia cards, including many wireless.
> Also, all BSD's (Free-, Open- and Net-) have good
> floppy-based installers. Also, if you have a laptop
> that has an optical drive but just won't boot off of
> it, use Smart Bootmanager (google it). It will detect
> most cd-roms and allow you to boot off it. I have had
> a problem with it where the first time you select the
> cdrom it doesn't work the first time. You just select
> it a second or third time and then it boots. ANother
> option is DSL or Puppy Linux on flash disks (if you
> have a USB port). They have floppies use can use to
> subsequently boot off the flash disk, and then you can
> install to the hard drive.
>
> --- Aaron Call <acall@siu.edu> wrote:
>
> > I have a project laptop: IBM Thinkpad 760DX, Intel
> > 166mhz, 64m Ram, and a
> > whopping 2.1g hd. The trick is, no bootable optical
> > drive and only one
> > removable media drive per boot. I am tired of trying
> > to get PCMCIA-NIC
> > configured so I created a bootable partition on the
> > HD; Linux or MS DOS
> > (used a floppy to create/install the partition, then
> > swap drives and
> > reboot).
> > So here I am, I need a distro that will run on the
> > above specs, preferably
> > with some basic graphical desktop, to be used for
> > basic
> > class-note-taking/websurfing/SSH stuff. I prefer an
> > installer but can forgo
> > such if there are explicit instructions. I need to
> > be able to start any such
> > installer from inside a booted OS (as above, either
> > DOS, Linux, or Windows).
> >
> > Any help at all would be great!
> > Thanks and Prost!
> > Aaron
> >
> >
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