Because I have limited RAM, I must partition my drives to create a /swap partition before I can run the SUSE 10.2 installer...once a /swap partition is made all seems good. Does anyone know of a floppy-based distribution that has cfdisk on it so that I can setup these partitions in advance? I have no CD-ROM drive.

I have to ask, if the machine has such little RAM that you need a swap partition just to install, how well do you really think installing a large distribution like SUSE is going to work?

At any rate, I am not aware of many floppy based distributions that are still in development. You don't want to use something that is ancient, since your hardware might not be supported. There are also multiple versions of the "swap" format, and you need to be using the latest.

The only thing that really comes to mind, while not specifically what you are looking for, are the install floppies for Slackware. These will boot up a minimal system that will be more than capable for:

A. Partitioning the drive and formatting a swap partition
B. Allowing you to install Slackware once you find SUSE is too heavy for the hardware