Ascii2 Posted August 26, 2008 Share Posted August 26, 2008 got a realy realy old laptop without a cd-rom but a floppy drive... what is a OS that you can load with nothing but floppy disk? Or any other suggestions would be nice as well Windows 3.1, Windows 1.0, Microsoft DOS (any version), and Windows 95. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AgiHammerklau Posted August 31, 2008 Share Posted August 31, 2008 (edited) @Redhatccwhat is a OS that you can load with nothing but floppy disk? Or any other suggestions would be nice as well biggrin.gifWell, my Amiga500 does it all the time.Agi Edited August 31, 2008 by AgiHammerklau Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
darrelljon Posted September 5, 2008 Share Posted September 5, 2008 (edited) Try the following and let us know how you get onKolibriOS - 1 floppyBalder - based on FreeDOS - 1 floppyFreeDOS + OpenGEM - ~10 floppies?Basic Linux - Slackware 4 + X + e-mail + presentation - 2 floppiesMungkie - aka 2diskXwin - 2 floppiesGrey Cat Linux - Slackware based with IceWM - ~10 floppies?Maybe Debian 3.0 (Woody)or Debian 3.1 (Sarge) Edited September 5, 2008 by darrelljon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tripredacus Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 98 however I've never seen on floppy.98 has floppies. I believe the number was around 35.I've done a 98 install with floppies. I think it was 33 but you had two extra disks. An emergency boot disk and something else. So ya, 35 does indeed sound right. The problem with 98 on floppies is that maybe disk 32 was bad and you'd be screwed because it would be 2 hours in that you'd find that out. Also Windows NT 3.51 had a floppy install as well.I wanted to revise my previous statement. NT 3.51 had a 5.25" floppy install.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
twig123 Posted September 8, 2008 Share Posted September 8, 2008 if you have a spare system, you could try connecting the drive to a system that does have a CD drive and copy the Win9x source to the drive... then all you would need is a Win98 boot floppy and you can start the install from the Hard drive itself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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