Linux on floppy [Archive]

Jamesy

20-09-2007, 04:23 PM

I have an old pc, that WONT boot from a live CD its that old. But it does have a floppy drive. Is there a linux distro I can install from a floppy.

I only hve one floppy.

Jazza

20-09-2007, 04:27 PM

No version of linux is under 50MB

Jamesy

20-09-2007, 04:34 PM

could i use a floppy to boot one up?

Jazza

20-09-2007, 04:38 PM

No, you'd either need to install a version onto a partition on your hard drive or get a new computer because there is no way any operating system would fit on a floopy disc.

Jamesy

20-09-2007, 05:43 PM

I meant use a floppy to tell the pc to run from disc.

Lycan

20-09-2007, 05:49 PM

just grab a Bootdisk and tell it to read from the CD ... not sure why your computer can't read from a CD on boot if it has a Cd drive

Jamesy

20-09-2007, 05:57 PM

Its an old pc. Not MY pc now. Read the OP please.

It says ATAPTI UNABLE TO START which is something to do with it.

Grab a bootdisc and start it up okie dokie

Colin-Roberts

20-09-2007, 07:14 PM

No version of linux is under 50MB
you should learn before you speak, dam small linux can be installed as an operating system and it's guarenteed to never exceed 50mb

Jazza

20-09-2007, 08:53 PM

you should learn before you speak, dam small linux can be installed as an operating system and it's guarenteed to never exceed 50mb

On disc it uses 49.5 but the actual size is something like 51,9--,--- bytes . Also it's 'guaranteed' not 'guarenteed'.

Technologic

27-09-2007, 06:42 PM

http://featherlinux.berlios.de/download.htm

There you go :]

Jazza

27-09-2007, 08:30 PM

http://featherlinux.berlios.de/download.htm

There you go :]

That's over 100MB, it would never fit on a floppy ;)