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Distributions for older laptops

Distributions for older laptops

Posted Jun 3, 2008 23:51 UTC (Tue) by raven667 (subscriber, #5198)
In reply to: Distributions for older laptops by clugstj
Parent article: The Grumpy Editor's Guide to distributions for laptops

While it is not a Linux distribution, I have personally had good luck running OpenBSD on older laptops, specifically a Dell Latitude CP, of similar vintage. On this system I do not have a CDROM drive, only a floppy, and this was the only OS I could do a network install using a floppy disk and a PCMCIA wireless card.


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Distributions for older laptops

Posted Jun 4, 2008 8:56 UTC (Wed) by k3ninho (subscriber, #50375) [Link]

Did you try Debian netinst? I'm sure I've done a netinstall from floppies on a Toshiba Tecra
520CDT, and used its PCMCIA net card to download.


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