Linux distro install from floppy?

[Arthur Pemberton]

Paul wrote:

>On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 11:59 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote:
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>>>--On samedi 9 avril 2005 09:46 -0400 Arthur Pemberton 
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>>>>Are there any full distros of linux that can be installed via floppy (no
>>>>cdrom or network). And which of these woudl run on a sub 8MB eof memory
>>>>machine?
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>>>>Thank you.
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>>>If you want to have only a router then use FreeSCO at 
>>><http://www.freesco.org/>
>>>Here you even don't need a HDD, only a floppy.
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>>No thanks, I know about the router distros. I need something with 
>>compilers too.
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>Does the system have a FPU (486DX or higher)?
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>I had an old 486SX laptop and everything I tried assumed that you had a
>FPU (ie the kernel was built without FPU emulation).  The best thing for
>such a low-end machine might be FreeDOS (http://www.freedos.org).  There
>are free compilers (the Borland TC 2.1 and TC++ 1.1), OpenWatcom and
>others that can be used on it.
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>Regards,
>Paul Berger
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Ok cool. However I'v forgotten all DOS commands, hence why i was hoping 
for something linux.

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