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Posted: Dec. 12 2004,05:47 QUOTE
i have a floppy i can use to get to dos. thats it. the only valid drive is A:\. is there a way i can specially install dsl via floppies using this dos?

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Posted: Dec. 12 2004,05:59 QUOTE
what are your other system specs?

Most importantly, do you have a netcard?

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Posted: Dec. 12 2004,10:19 QUOTE
I have the same problem, I have a Realy old PC which used to have Windows 3.1 on it until it got accidentally deleted, It's only got about 33Mhz and a very slow graphics card (Im not sure if it's even got one!) anyway it is a very old PC with only a floppy drive, i was wondering if i got get DSL on floppy and boot it on to my really old PC
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Posted: Dec. 12 2004,15:28 QUOTE
It should be possible - create a 55-60 MB dos/win partition, transfer the 48 MB knoppix file from the CD to c:\knoppix, download http://ibiblio.org/pub.....0.img, create and boot from the diskette, and it should work.
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Posted: Dec. 12 2004,20:13 QUOTE
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• Processor: Pentium 75 – 200
• Main Memory: 40 MB of phisical ram

thats all i know. i have a modem card. IS that the same thing?

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