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Posted: Dec. 04 2005,11:50 QUOTE
Hi,
I have a really old laptop.
in the moment windows 95 is running on it, but it's very slow and the hdd is very full.

the laptop has a 486DX CPU and 32Mb Ram.
The HDD has got a size of 200mb.
The laptop has only a floppydisk.

I think Damn Small Linux could be the right thing, for this machine.

Now I want to know, if there is a possibility to install DSL via Floppy Disks.

Thank you for your answers

Ikonos
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Posted: Dec. 04 2005,20:14 QUOTE
Here is a list of a few ways.

Installing with floppies is very tedious. You would do better to drop the hdd into another computer and install on the other computer. You will probably need a 44-to-40 pin IDE adapter, which will cost you much less than the floppies you will need for a floppy-only install.

-J.P.

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Posted: Dec. 04 2005,21:43 QUOTE
Do you have an ethernet card in that old machine? Ones you have some experience in the network world, installing is an easy thing over the net.
Otherwise indeed a possible solution is taking out the hard disk and putting it into another machine to make a "poor man's install or another setup. I would prefer a "poor man's install", becouse you only need a 50 Mb and you have another 150 M to put some data on that machine of yours. In the other case you wil have not enough place with 200 Mb (if I remember right you need at least 250 or 300 Mb for a real install.)

What is a "poor man's install?"
Find more about it here:
http://www.knoppix.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=17345

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Posted: Dec. 05 2005,16:23 QUOTE
As long as you have an ethernet card, try
http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki....tall%29

I would partition hda1 65M, hda2 65M and the remainder for swap.

Don't waste your time with the floppies, there's WAY too much that can go wrong :o(

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Posted: Dec. 05 2005,16:29 QUOTE
Also, I use a PCMCIA card for ethernet access on my laptop - which is P75 / 16MB RAM with around 220-250MB usable HD space.

DSL does pretty well with the Linux friendly network cards, and they're not very expensive to buy if you don't have one.

I think it's funny how we assumed you have no use for Win95 on your laptop. ;o)

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