Stephen Gran on 13 Oct 2005 22:39:13 -0000


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Re: [PLUG] "Current" Linux on old laptop


On Thu, Oct 13, 2005 at 05:06:02PM -0400, jazzman@exdomain.org said:
> I need a recommendation and I figured what better place to ask this.
> 
> I have an old IBM Thinkpad (760ED... P166 (or 133, not sure), 64mb ram. I 
> had RH9 on it, but the drive has ssince been wiped. Now I'm ready to 
> reinstall it but I'm hoping to put a more current version of linux on it. 
> The only drawback is that whatever version I put on it has to have an 
> installation boot floppy since I don't think the laptop supports Boot From 
> CD. Fedora doesn't seem to come with boot floppies, and most distros I see 
> only seem to come with bootable CDs... does anyone have any suggestions ?

http://http.us.debian.org/debian/dists/sarge/main/installer-i386/current//images/floppy/
and the release and install guide:
http://www.us.debian.org/releases/stable/i386/
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