Re: CD-less linux installl for old laptop?

From: Gary Tait (classicsat_at_yahoo.cominvalid)
Date: 05/12/04 

Date: Wed, 12 May 2004 09:26:13 -0400

On Wed, 12 May 2004 07:51:05 +0200, Arun Dev <nospam@pleaz.xy> wrote:

>Gary Tait wrote:
>>
>> NEC Versa 2435, P133/48MB Ram, 2 GB HDD and 1.44 FDD, no CD, but a
>> parallel port Zip 100 drive is available. The ethernet card is a
>> Linksys Etherfast100 (AsixBroadcom chipset). The Suse installer likes
>> it and my PCMCIA chipset fine.
>> ..
>>
>> When I try to install Suse 8 (with FTP from the internet), it gets to
>> the point it wants to load the root image, but refuses to due to
>> insufficient ram no swap space on the HDD, which I cannot cofigure to
>> that point).
>
>IMHO SuSE installer itself needs 48 MB RAM. Therefore
>below 64 MB RAM I wouldn't bother.
>
>If upgrading to 64MB is not an option, you have to go
>for a different distribution. I have experience in
>Slackware, which still works for 486 with 16 MB RAM.
>
>There I would make 4 floppies.
> - boot
> - 2x root
> - network
>Boot with the boot disk (what else?) and it will give
>you the instructions. If the network disk recognizes
>your network card, you are saved ;)
>
>Arun

And then what? How do I do an internet install of slackware?
So far I've only seen reference to an NFS install.

>>
>> I need a distro I can install via FTP, or at least over the network
>> from my XP or working Suse 8.1 box, or at very minumum, off a zip disk
>> or two.
>>
>> I do not want to dowload a complete distro only for the command line
>> portion.
>>
>> I also want one that will configure and format the HDD directly, not a
>> UMSDOS based one.

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