I have an old p133 32mb ram dell latitude xpi laptop and... no cdrom. I got windows on there because DOS doesnt multitask (but i still love it). in any case. I put win95 on it by "winace"ing an entire win95 cd and puting the ace files (all 104 of them) on my laptop with a floppy disk. I unaced from the winace command line and ran setup.exe. NOW I now that the thing runs. I wnat linux. I compiled a basic kernel and have most of the config files in order and i want to put this on there. (I do have an external CDROM pluged into the pcmcia slot if that might help. ThanX

I also need some input on how to write the boot sector. I have never delved into the boot sector before. a simple C++ prog source would work fine

Do you have a PCMCIA network card, or can you borrow one? If so you could create the boot floppies for your favourite distribution and do an FTP install.

Don't expect X to run well on that kind of hardware though...

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ahh good idea. i dont plan on x running locally. I plan to boot basic linux and startx -vncviewer
vnc to a fast computer. or SSH. one of the 2. but thanx