just grab a netinstall cd (around 30mb) and install the base system and apt-get everything you need. A word to the wise the system is pretty bare when you first set it up, till you apt-get everything.

There are some superb desktop Linux distributions that are designed to work with very old hardware. For example, Puppy Linux is a great choice to quickly turn an old PC into a secure, easy to use word ...

A friend of mine gave me a Compaq Armada 4120T. It's a P200 Laptop with no CDROM, so I had to netinstall from floppies.<BR><BR>Debian woody (the 2.4 bootfloppies) detected and installed the Linksys ...