installing from diskettes

Forum: Laptops
Topic: installing from diskettes
started by: caraloca

Posted by caraloca on Mar. 27 2006,13:40

hi, is it possible to instal damnsmalllinux from diskettes?.
my old laptop is a pentium 133mhz with 640kb and the hard drive is 1350 bytes.
It only has a diskette drive, no cdrom.
Or what version of linux can i install that will fit in it and it is easy to use and if possible that I can run small games and listen to music, i want to give it to a little kid to play with.
thank you

Posted by pr0f3550r on Mar. 27 2006,18:07

Quote (caraloca @ Mar. 27 2006,08:40)

640kb and the hard drive is 1350 bytes.

Surely, some zero's left or is it a wristwatch?
Even Commodore 64 had more power.

Posted by caraloca on Mar. 27 2006,18:35

ok, i take that as a yes, I hope is that what you mean
but now how do i instal it using diskettes?.

Thank you

Posted by Paul54 on Mar. 28 2006,17:02

Take a look at the post in Laptops -> IBM Thinkpad 600 Hard Drive Install, the 5th message from cbagger01.
There you will probably find some helpfull links.

Posted by DrWatt on Mar. 28 2006,17:33

You might also consider a low cost solution that works for some - a zip100 parallel port drive. I picked one up for $4, and I see them all the time for that or less at garage sales, XBay, and the old computer bins at thrift stores. I am not sure 640k is going to support DSL, but the zip drive is worth having on an old laptop even if you just use DOS.