[Techtalk] Installing Linux on an older laptop

[Kathy Wills]

txjulie at austin.rr.com wrote:

>Robyn Manning wrote:
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>>Hi
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>>If your machine has a CD-Rom you could try Knoppix. Knoppix is a
>>bootable CD that loads into RAM without touching the existing hard
>>drive. It's great as a rescue CD also.
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>Thanks -- I'll look into that as well.  I burned a CD already
>with Tom's Root Boot thingy and it worked rather nicely.
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>So far I've only seen floppy and CD mini-distros.  Has no one
>ever made a ZIP mini distro?
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Slackware has a zip distro. It is called Zipslack.

Kathy