Re: [TCLUG:13980] notebooks

["Kelly Black" <blackk100@hotmail.com>]

Or use ZipSlack from Slackware.  Unzip.  Change a batch file, and you are up 
and running under UMSDOS filesystem (kinda slow), but you can see if the 
hardware will work under Linux.




>From: "Carl Wilhelm Soderstrom" <carls@agritech.com>
>Reply-To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>To: tclug-list@mn-linux.org
>Subject: Re: [TCLUG:13980] notebooks
>Date: Thu, 24 Feb 2000 08:58:19 -0800
>
> >3. is
> >there a way to get linux on floppies?
>         Debian allows you to do a basic install from floppies. I heartily
>recommend that everyone do an entire install from floppies, at least 
>once...
>once, mind you. :)
>
>you end up with a very lean system, which you understand very well (because
>you have to think about each package that you install; repeatedly); and it
>teaches you many things (such as that a multi-disk .zip file can simply be
>cat'ed together into one big .zip file, then un.zip'ed; useful when you 
>want
>to install a package that doesn't fit on a single floppy).
>
>so go for it. :)
>
>Carl soderstrom
>System Administrator    307 Brighton Ave.
>Minnesota DHIA	        Buffalo, MN
>carls@agritech.com      (612) 682-1091
>
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