Re: Debian on Thinkpad 755C with NO cd-rom drive

[Ioana Glitia <iglitia@linux360.ro>]

I've started installing Debian (the latest stable) and i've  put all the 
20  base floppies in. Where could I get the X window packages for debian 
from, to put them on the hadrive (with the floppies- I don't have the 
cables for a ftp connection) and then use apt-get to install them?

Ioana

seth.edwards@pobox.com wrote:

> I used to run Debian on a 755C for several years (it was my first laptop).
> I installed via floppy and eventually hooked up to a PLIP connection.  In
> fact I used it until just before I moved about 18 months ago.  I had X and
> fvwm95 running on it.  It does run much better though if you have 36MB.
> If you use a smaller wm you'll probably get better performance than I did.
>
>
> Seth
>
> On Mon, 17 Jan 2005, Ioana Glitia wrote:
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> > Has anyone installed Debian or any kind of Linux on an IBM Thinkpad 755C
> > (or anything similar) that only has a floppy drive, no cd-rom drive and
> > no network connection? I've got a pc with network connection of course
> > so I could get whatever I need on floppies. Also, the specs are not
> > encouraging at all, it's a 486 with 20 MB of RAM. Is there any chance of
> > getting X window system with a small wm like IceWM to work?
> >
> > Regards,
> > Ioana
> >
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