[Techtalk] Installing Linux on an older laptop

[Mary]

On Sun, Mar 09, 2003 at 11:06:19PM -0600, txjulie at austin.rr.com wrote:
> Where is it possible to get the diskette sets anymore?  I just
> installed ZIP 250 drives in all the machines in the house (except
> for this one, which has a ZIP 750 drive, and the kitchen computer
> which has no room for such a thing).  I'd like to be able to boot
> Linux on those drives in the event I need to something Linux-y
> without having to have separate partitions on them just for Linux.

I like tomsrtbt (Tom's Root Boot) at: http://www.toms.net/rb/

According to the website, it's "The most GNU/Linux on 1 floppy disk."

I've only used it as a rescue disk, so I can't tell you too much about
what it offers as a running system.

-Mary