PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld)
PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld)
Posted Jun 15, 2020 6:55 UTC (Mon) by eru (subscriber, #2753)In reply to: PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld) by TheOuterLinux
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Note also that an old computer might have a CD drive, but it cannot boot from it! I have Toshiba Tecra laptop that is that way. A Pentium MMX CPU, 80mb of RAM. The last Linux distro I succesfully installed on it was CentOS 3, which still had floppy images. Today even supposedly retro hw distros require the capability to boot from a CD or USB.
Posted Jun 15, 2020 9:17 UTC (Mon)
by ballombe (subscriber, #9523)
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PsychOS: A Crazy Cool Distro That Pushes Linux Limits (TechNewsWorld)
Very old laptop have a floppy disk drive and can boot from it.
They you can install a boot loader on a floppy disk that can boot from your CD.
This was a standard trick for installing Debian back in the day.