<div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 20, 2009 at 8:56 PM, Dan Hockey <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:icepuck2k@gmail.com">icepuck2k@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I found ubuntu moblin remix and now I'd like to try it on an older P1 75mhz laptop(no cdrom), but the problem I ran into is I need something to boot from a floppy that can then boot linux from the usb flash drive.<br>
Dos boot floppy with usb drivers didn't work so I'm guessing some form of l inux with usb drivers is what's needed?<br></blockquote></div><br>I suspect you're not going to get a satisfactory experience on a 75MHz laptop w/ a modern Linux. You can still use these older computers for real-world tasks. Running
the latest media-rich, connected desktop may not be one of them.<br><br>What you may want to consider doing is looking for a tiny linux distro optimized for these older computes. There are some around though I haven't used one in a long time. Was Puppy one such?<br>
<br>Being the glutton for punishment that I am, I'd probably get a slightly older debian distro that can boot from floppy and do a basic install with that to get a bootable command line environment w/ networking support. Then use that as a foundation to upgrade to a newer distro.<br>
<br>Fluxbox and some of the other *box window managers work well for older computers. You can install these to get a working desktop.<br><br>w3m is an interesting semi-graphical web-browser that works both from the command line and in a desktop environment. mutt is a useful command line mail program and there are even tutorials on the web to get you connected to gmail using imap. claws is a simple desktop based email program that works very nicely.<br clear="all">
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