From: teffta@cs690-3.erie.ge.com (Andrew R. Tefft) Subject: Re: Help! Floppyless Linux ? Date: Mon, 20 Sep 1993 15:48:43 GMT
In article 15783@cc.gatech.edu, byron@cc.gatech.edu (Byron A Jeff) writes:
>In article <27ctjk$osb@aurora.engr.latech.edu>, Alex Ramos
><ramos@engr.latech.edu> wrote:
>>I have a 386 SX/16 with 80meg of disk space (in 2 disks), BUT only a
>>360K floppy, which I'd call "floppyless" for all practical purposes. Is
>>there any way I can install Linux on this machine? I have a modem and
>>access to SLIP lines at school, if that would be of any help.
>Sorry for the bad news. The only ray of hope is that you really can
>function without the floppy after you've installed linux.
I wouldn't say that. You won't get much of a rootdisk in 360k for
recovery purposes. If you have hard drive problems you would need to
borrow a HD drive again.
HD 3.5" drives are about $60 now. See if you think that's a reasonable
investment (consider that it can move with you to any future machine).