[Wolves] Small Distro

[Stuart Langridge]

Mo Awkati wrote:
> Hi Everyone
> 
> I am trying to recycle an old laptop from work this is
> the spec as far as i can make it:
> 
> Toshiba T2130CS
> 500MB hard drive
> 8MB memory
> Intel processor
> 
> I will be going away on holidy in August and I would
> like to take some Linux books etc with me to improve
> my knowledge of the command line, and some coding. Is
> there a distro small enough that I can load from
> floppies, bearing in mind what I am after as the
> laptop does not have a CD-ROM drive? I would prefer
> the distro to have a GUI desktop etc so I can have a
> go at some C++ coding etc. 

Does the laptop have connectivity to the net? If you can bang a PCMCIA 
network card in it and make it see the net, then you can download the 
Debian netinst floppies and do an installation that way, which is very 
handy.

Aq.