You could get one of those iddy bity little distros that fit on a floppy.
I've tried several and muLinux is great. You can even dial up and surf the
internet with lynx and do email and ng with mutt if it has a modem. You can
run it from the floppy (in ram actually), but with 4 megs...hmmm. But you
can install to run off of that little hdd. It even has X support with some
little window managers (that I haven't got to work yet... but many have).
It's the coolest thing.
-s
On Monday 26 March 2001 05:24 pm, you wrote:
> I'm trying to get a Linux distribution on a cruddy little laptop (486 w/4
> meg RAM 200 MB HDD) and I'm having some problems.
>
> 1. no CD-ROM
> 2. no NIC
> 3. no easy method of installing Linux from floppies.
>
> Now I could use LOAF, but I'd like to not need a boot disk. I'm basically
> looking for a cruddy little console laptop, but if I can get X to work or
> something like that, that would be good.
