I've read a few posts on installing from a floppy, but none really answered my question.

Here's my situation:

I have an old Toshiba Tecra 730CDT i'd like to install Linux on. The BIOS cant boot from the CD drive, and when I use a floppy boot disk, it wont read the CD either.

What I want to know: Is there a way to take an existing distro (I wanted to use either Damn Small Linux or MEPIS), and "chop" it into pieces and put it onto seperate floppies? How would I chop the distros up (as in how would I divide up all the data on the floppies)?

Thanks for any help, I'm off to bed now...

if ur intention is just to install linux in ur pc. maybe u can find an install server where u can connect to via nfs. .Am assuming here that u can connect ur pc to a lan. You can use a floppy to boot the ur pc. check out the network howtos on how to configure a boot floppy for this..

I'm doing it on a laptop, and I won't be able to connect it to a LAN.

I had the same problem until I came across smart boot manager
http://btmgr.webframe.org/
Try it, boot from floppy, then choose cd from smart boot manager
My prob was that pc could not handle isolinux, old distros that use syslinux may work for you to if you would like to try that as an alternative.
If you insist on insalling from floppy, debian has a 13 floppy base install then continue on intstalling app by app till you get the system you want.(a lot of debs will fit on a floppy)
simple debian floppy install