Hi! I have a Fujitsu stylistic 2300. The hard drive cable is bad so I am in search of a new one...in the meantime, I am planning to go travelling next week and want to take my beloved tablet with me to watch VCD's. Does anyone know if there is a Linux distrib. that will reside on a floppy disk? I also want to be able to watch VCD's and listen to the sound as well..all run off of a floppy drive. I would appreciate any help you can provicde...very, very soon!

I have a CD player with the computer...I will put the VCD in the CD player, will not try to also put it on the floppy

Why don't you tranfer the VCD on your hard-drive and put a live-cd of linux ?

Hi! Thanks for your fast response...the problem I am having is that the cable for my hard drive has a short so the hard drive is not working. I am trying to find a temporary solution - 1-2 months - that will let me use the computer as a vcd player with only a floppy drive and a CD player. The computer does not boot to the cd player - the BIOS is too old so I have to use some kind of boot disk in the floppy to get the show started. How much room does Linux need on a CD? Or...can I boot the system from a floppy, use the cd player to load Linux into memory, take the Linux CD our and pop in my movie CD? I know this is a bit difficult to describe...but if you keep in mind I have a computer with no hard drive, only a floppy and a CD player I think it will be easier to conceptualize.
Tom

Well, if you just want to use the computer as a vcd player, take a look at LinVDR http://linvdr.org/ ( german language )
It´s a life-distro designed for watching VCDs ( i think so... )
I never tryed it myself, but as far as i know, you can boot up your computer with LinVDR-cd and then remove the cd for watching a vcd or svcd....
Don´t know if this can solve the problem, but i think it´s worth a try.

--> http://linvdr.org/download/linvdr/linvdr-0.6.iso.gz

UUUUPS.....
Sorry I´m wrong !
As I read on their website, LinVDR is not a life-distro.
You must install it to use it ( 50 MB space required ), so this will not solve your problem.
Sorry.

GeeXboX is a live-cd distro that load into main memory and doesn't need to have its cd in after its loaded.
www.geexbox.org

good luck
gabebster