On Wed, 12 Dec 2007, Chris Schumann wrote: > That's sort of my next plan. There's a web site [1] that has made a set > of Fedora install floppies, which would work on my machine except that > Fedora doesn't work on any 486 any more. (The older versions might work, > but upgrading would not be fun.) > > I plan to make such a set of floppies for Ubuntu using the Mini ISO, > which is only 9.1MB, so it should fit on 7 floppies, or 6 if I make > 1.7MB floppies, plus one for the boot diskette. It should allow a direct > network install without requiring any OS to be installed. > > [1] http://www.thisiscool.com/fcfloppy.htm Does "network install" imply that no hard drive is needed on the local machine? Mike