hello friends, i am trying to get a debian system on an old laptop i have copped from a friend; it is rather old, but i couldn't give up the chance to install linux on something else.
the system is a compaq contura 430cx, it has a floppy drive ONLY. no cd-rom, no network (it had a pcmcia modem thing, but i lost it), not even speakers. i have tried the regular debian floppy installation, but it fails while loading the ramdisk (no kernel panic, it simply stops). i tried the regular kernel, the compact, and the bf24. i have tried other floppy-based distro's, but they're floppy, and only floppy, most don't allow access to the HD, and the others are either rescue disks (which i don't need), or router/firewalls (which i also don't need). i also tried a slackware floppy installation, but received a kernel panic:out of memory error, along with a hang. google keeps on popping up floppy-based distros, and none(that i've seen) mention using the floppy to turn the laptop/pc into a workstation. in case you were wondering, i am planning on turing it into an easily portable demo for friends, and a simple workstation for myself, something easy to carry around notes, jot down ideas, simple stuff - nothing to grand. any help would be greately appreciated. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
