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bharadwaj
September 17th, 2009, 11:10 AM
Hi,

I have a very old laptop which comes with 128 MB memory 10 GB HDD No Floppy Drive, No CD Drive.

Recently I had an OS crash and my OS was gone. I tried booting with external Drive but failed, I do not have a network to boot from network. I tried the below guide to boot from USB

http://www.pendrivelinux.com/usb-kubuntu-904-persistent-install-windows/

but nothing happens(may due to poor memory) I have a 32 GB USB pendrive, a desktop with windows/Linux. My Laptop supports USB FDD booting. Please help me through the process of getting my laptop up and running.

Thank You!

kerry_s
September 17th, 2009, 11:18 AM
128 MB memory

:lolflag:
use unetbootin to make a bootable usb:
http://unetbootin.sourceforge.net/

finding a distro that works with so little ram is the hard part.

analoog
September 17th, 2009, 11:43 AM
You might want to consider xubuntu on a laptop with those specs.

rob-ward
September 17th, 2009, 11:54 AM
I think xubuntu may be overkill, you may want to try installiing ubuntu from the mini disk and installing lxde, that will be ligheter than ubuntu or xubuntu

wojox
September 17th, 2009, 11:58 AM
Or maybe Puppy Linux (http://www.puppylinux.org/)

mantelo
September 17th, 2009, 07:53 PM
I have a laptop similar to yours (sony PCG-SR17). 128 MB, 20 GB, no cd.

The best I could come with was Puppy Linux (it works really nice).

For booting I used wingrub (my bios wouldn't take grub), which is a version of grub for windows systems with (I had win 2000). If your disk is using fat (win 95, 98 or me), you could use syslinux or grub4dos.

bharadwaj
September 18th, 2009, 01:38 PM
For booting I used wingrub (my bios wouldn't take grub), which is a version of grub for windows systems with (I had win 2000). If your disk is using fat (win 95, 98 or me), you could use syslinux or grub4dos.

My OS is corrupt so I can't do these!!

mantelo
September 20th, 2009, 10:10 PM
If your pc boots from usb, you will only need to download puppy to the pen drive and boot it. From there you can perform the install to the hard drive. If the system does not support usb boot, you will have to extract the hard drive and connect it to a different PC in order to format it and install puppy.


Good luck!