Probably it doesn't have too awfully much RAM either, right? Does it at
least have a floppy? :-). Of the major distro's, slackware is best
suited to limited hardware. I installed slackware 3.4 on my mighty
PackardHell 386 laptop with 4mb RAM this way: made the bootdisk
(bare.i, I think) and text root (I had to gunzip it, since i couldn't
use a ramdisk), booted and mounted the text root /dev/fd0 on /. Made a
swap partition. Made another tiny partition and fs and copied everything
from the text root to it. Booted again, and mounted the tiny partition
as /. Now I had the floppy free to install from. I also had a working
linux junk-pentium system to make the floppies with near at hand, which
made it a lot easier.
If the laptop has a serial port and there is a working linux system
nearby, you can string them together with a null-modem cable, and the
slackware a disk set has enough networking capability that you can get s
slip micro-network going and finish the install by ftp.
I didn't say it would be easy, did I?
Lawson
>< Microsoft free environment
This mail client runs on Wine. Your mileage may vary.
On Sat, 19 Jun 1999, Indiana Zephyr wrote:
> I'm trying to find a way to install Linux onto my 486 laptop. I don't
> have a cd-rom, don't have a network card, and don't have a modem. I
> also don't have any sort of external zip drive or anything like that.
> If anyone has any ideas, please go ahead and post them.
>
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> =Indiana Zephyr
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