Re: Old Distro for my Old Laptop

From: Chris Share (usenet_at_caesium.me.uk)
Date: 02/14/04 

Date: 14 Feb 2004 02:10:15 GMT

On Thu, 12 Feb 2004 19:37:59 GMT, chris <haine.a.tous@ameritech.net> wrote:
> I need an old distro for my 486 @ 40 MHz and I was wondering if anybody
> knows of one that I can install with floppies because this old thing has
> no cdrom and I want my home to be free of MS Windows, even 3.1 on the
> laptop. So, has anybody got a link to a website or FTP with a very, very
> old distro? Thanks in advance,
>
> Chris

Why bother with an old distro? The current stable version of debian can
install from 2 floppies, but it's a *very* basic system. However if you
have a supported network card, then you can just download everything
else. If you need to install entirely off floppies, then an older
slackware is probably better. Also I'd go for console mode if you can,
or if not then use XFree86 3.x, with something like fvwm or icewm as the
window manager, so it'll run at a reasonable speed.

chris

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