Re: [Trisquel-users] Is there a build of Trisquel Mini 8 that is under 700 MB and can fit on a CD?

[xliang9550]

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 installer). I  
could have Xfce desktop environment completely offline. I didn't enable  
contrib or non-free repository so the installation was free/libre.

However, there are some other workarounds for you. For example, you can try  
to find a USB NIC (ath9k-htc or wired), or remove the hard disk from your  
chassis and install the operating system on another computer using a  
USB-to-IDE converter.