linux on a laptop

Jeff Goeke-Smith jeff@goeke.net
Sat, 20 Jan 2001 18:32:13 -0500


I would recomend debian personally.  I'm currently running debian on an IBM
thinkpad 701
with no cdrom drive at all.  The floppy disks to network install worked just
fine.

--Jeff

> -----Original Message-----
> From: linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu
> [mailto:linux-user-admin@egr.msu.edu]On Behalf Of Daniel R. Kilbourne
> Sent: Saturday, January 20, 2001 5:13 PM
> To: linux-user@egr.msu.edu
> Subject: linux on a laptop
>
>
> So I have a noname generic Pentium 166 laptop with 16 MB RAM.
> Anyone have a
> suggestion for a distro to run on it?
> Also, does anyone have experience loading Linux onto a laptop
> that does not
> allow booting off of the CD?
>
>
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> Voyager.net, a CoreComm Co.
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