I had a 20th-century legacy notebook that was similar with your computer. It
had only CD-ROM drive and no NIC, though I purchased an Atheros-based PCMCIA
wireless NIC much later. The system installation I used was Debian
Installer's Xfce CD version (not Debian Live, but the binary
It would be hard to configure device drivers, as they'd be configured for the
source (donor) computer rather than for the destination computer. I think
this would cause more configuration issues than it's worth.
How about detaching the hard disk drive off it and install Trisquel on
other computer and finally attach the hard disk back again?
Did you read the OP?
Trisquel Netinst ISO image is only some 36–41 MB.
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/trisquel-netinst_9.0_amd64.iso
http://jenkins.trisquel.info/makeiso-etiona/iso/trisquel-netinst_9.0_i686.iso
http://mirror.fsf.org/trisquel-images/trisquel-netinst_8.0_amd64.iso
I'm trying to install Trisquel Mini 8.0 onto a system from 1999, whose
optical drive is only a CD drive and not a DVD drive, and has no way of
booting from USB (not that that matters since it only supports USB 1.1).
I noticed that the latest build of Trisquel Mini is 950 MB, and therefore
