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29-Jan-2008, 01:08 PM #16
How much RAM does the laptop have?
How big is the Hard Drive?
Do you want to run JUST Linux, or Windows and Linux?

There is e.g. "Installing Ubuntu on a machine with no CDROM drive" at http://efod.se/blog/archive/2006/11/...no-cdrom-drive but it needs at least 256Mb of RAM.
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Any luck here?
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I have an old Sony Laptop. It came installed with windows 98. It was given to me and all i received was the computer and power cord...no disk, documentation, or anything. I need to mention also that there is no cd drive, just floppy. The problem is the nothing loads. I was wanting to install DSL(damn small Linux) on it. Is there anyway to do this by using a jump drive? Any suggestions would be great. I really just want to get it up and running again.

As of right now, i have a windows 98 boot disk(that i attained LEGALLY) Im not sure what to do to get this computer up and running again. If anyone could help again with this it would be great. Thankx guys already for your help.
http://marc.herbert.free.fr/linux/win2linstall.html

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Installing_Linux

http://linuxgazette.net/issue61/ward.html

http://wiki.lunar-linux.org/index.ph...allation:No_CD
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