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Linux distro for very old comp

Posted: 10 Mar 2006, 17:05
by paulyj1124
Any one know a distro for a old comp that runs from a floppy disk? The CD-ROM drive is completely screwed, and it dosent have a USB drive.

INTEL PRO
64m RAM (I think)
Running Windows 95

Posted: 10 Mar 2006, 17:37
by CommonStray
heres a pretty damn good article i found on linux with older hardware

but to be honest i would consider getting a new CD Rom - nothing fancy of course

http://www.linux.com/article.pl?sid=06/02/13/1854251

3.5 floppy linux distro's

http://floppix.ccai.com/
http://www.linuxlinks.com/Distributions ... ributions/ - nice list

Posted: 16 Mar 2006, 12:41
by GODhack
Move comps hdd to another pc and then copy "puppy" or "dsl", then move hdd back.