Back in the day, the kernel was much smaller and could fit on a
floppy.  But even in the mid-90s if you wanted to do a full install,
linux required several floppies.

Today, I'm not so sure floppy is the way to go.  The easiest might be
to remove the hard drive, put it in a USB enclosure, and install linux
to it.  A current linux kernel will run just fine on a 100 MHz
mahcine.  However, 32 MB may be pushing it.

Good luck and let us know how things go.

Regards,
- Robert

On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 8:49 PM, Chris Choi <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi
> So I recently got a Toshiba Libretto 70CT, its pretty ancient, it only has
> something like 100 odd Mhz, with 32MB. I know there are some floppy disk
> distribtions still around, but I was wondering, how did they build one in
> the first place? I'm pretty sure back then, Linux from scratch didn't
> exist!
>
> Any ideas?
> Cheers
> Chris

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