Other Help Topics :: Downloading and Installing DSL using ONLY a floppy



Quote (SaidinUnleashed @ June 22 2005,01:05)
Also, you can get a 44-to-40 pin IDE adapter for just a few bucks at your local fry's or compusa.

Then you can do the frugal install on another box and then move it back to your lappy.

-J.P.

This is quite true...also is a good tool for rescuing crashed copies of XP and any M$ product on a laptop (other than using livecd dsl with samba.dsl to offload important data, then wipe heh)

Brian
AwPhuch
Additional question on how to do a floppy install for me, a newbie.  

How do I create the floppies using a Windows 95B OSR2 system?  I assume you will tell me the name of one program to do this.  Exactly where should I find the programs to download for use with this.   (Can you provide a link?)

Should I have started another thread?

Thanks.
Alright,
So I got all the files copied over to my Thinkpad. I tested them with unrar, and replaced the necessary files until they all tested OK. Then I started the unrar process. It goes swimmingly until it gets to the file "boot/isolinux/boot.msg", and it gives me the error:  
"Not Enough Memory
Program Aborted"

Does anyone know what this means and what I should do?? I can almost taste the end, I just need to get past this!
Given that your laptop has a 160 MB disk, I would guess that your laptop at best has a 486 processor with 8 MB ram. That simply isn't enough to run DSL in graphical mode. You could try to write "dsl 1" (without quotes) at the "boot:"-prompt. This should boot you into single user and command line. If that doesn't work, download and install Basic Linux (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/) and run the following two commands to find processor and memory:
more /proc/cpuinfo
free
Quote (skaos @ June 24 2005,07:39)
Given that your laptop has a 160 MB disk, I would guess that your laptop at best has a 486 processor with 8 MB ram. That simply isn't enough to run DSL in graphical mode. You could try to write "dsl 1" (without quotes) at the "boot:"-prompt. This should boot you into single user and command line. If that doesn't work, download and install Basic Linux (http://distro.ibiblio.org/pub/linux/distributions/baslinux/) and run the following two commands to find processor and memory:
more /proc/cpuinfo
free

OK,
So I boot it using the "dsl 1" command, and it tells me it found 17,400 kb of memmory and a 486 processor. I am assuming this should be enough to run it in graphical mode, which is why it is wierd that it dowsn't work that way. After it ran all the tests, I got a command line "root@tty1[/]#". So this must be the command line version of DSL.

Ok, so that version works. Does that mean that I won't be able to run in graphical mode ever? Is there something else I should try? Once I get to this command line, I am unsure on how to proceed. What kind of tools, etc, will I be able to use, and is it even worth it? Maybe there is some other distribution that would work better on my lappy? If there is some magical way to get DSL to run in graphical mode, I would extremely satidfied.
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