Hello, I have an old Toshiba Pentium 1 -166 Mhz MMX with 32MB Ram, 2GB HD, and Floppy Drive. This laptop is just about useless for anything without a CD-Rom and its BIOS is so old that even if it did have a CD-Rom it would not be able to boot from the CD Drive.

So I need a suggestion for a good Linux Distro to run on it that can be installed via floppy disks. I'd like to have KDE and a GUI, but I am thinking that I might have to install Mandrake or Slackware on it without a GUI since it only has a 2GB HD.

Any suggestions other than throwing the laptop away and getting something better. One idea was to USE it as a DHCP Server with Freesco, but if I could use the laptop for more than a DHCP server that would be great.

As far as what I would liek to do with it to match the distro up with my needs, I'd like a GUI if possible, but if I have to deal with just raw Linux, so be it. If it was without a GUI it wouldnt be very useful for anything other than hosting services like MAIL, DHCP, etc

Thanks for your thoughts and suggestions.

Dave check out www.distrowatch.com and www.linux.org/dist/Thanks, I'll check those out!www.linuxquestions.org too.KDE is going to HURT in 32MB. Far better to use one of the streamlined window managers like xfce. (That used to be the default desktop for VectorLinux if MEMORY serves.) In fact, why not hunt for some floppy installation HowTos for VectorLinux?

Quite a while ago I installed SuSE Linux on a server using three FLOPPIES and a NETWORK connection (which pulled the rest of the distribution over FTP on the fly).