Re: Distro Recommendation

["Aaron Call" <acall@siu.edu>]

I guess you guys were right, the drive is in a caddy (i.e.
http://cgi.ebay.com/Hard-drive-caddy-IBM-Thinkpad-360-755-760_W0QQitemZ10300
0472402QQcategoryZ74949QQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem). I didn't want to rip it apart
to find out. I do data recovery for my peers at the law school so I have and
use frequently an adapter similar to the one suggested. 

"Only one removable media drive per boot" meant that I have a cd and a
floppy drive, but that are not hot-swappable. 

I have messed around with something similar to Smart Bootmanager in the past
with little luck. I'll try it again if the other routes have issues.

I think I'll be trying Debian first but have burned the Xubuntu disc too.
Thanks for the advice everyone. I'll keep you all once I get something
running.

Aaron

> 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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