On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 11:59 -0400, Arthur Pemberton wrote: > Sasa Stupar wrote: > > > > > > > --On samedi 9 avril 2005 09:46 -0400 Arthur Pemberton > > <dalive@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > >> 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? > >> > >> Thank you. > > > > > > 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. > > > No thanks, I know about the router distros. I need something with > compilers too. Does the system have a FPU (486DX or higher)? 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. Regards, Paul Berger > > > Sasa > > > > >
