Mike Miller said: > 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? Nope. It means get the packages from the network instead of a local source such as floppy(!), CD, memory card, etc. Chris