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["James K. Banks" <foreclosers AT gmail.com>]

On Fri, Mar 21, 2014 at 10:15 AM, sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.org> wrote:

Puppy Linux supports 'older' hardware and also the 'newer' cardbus wifi cards.  I use the PULP version which is less memory intensive, boots up into X with 10MB RAM if you run a 'full' installation (do not load everything into memory, install to hard drive not 'frugal').  Turbopup is another option but it is buggy.

One of the constraints of this laptop is that it doesn't have a CDROM drive.  PULP comes as an .iso.  What are my options?  Would loadlin.exe work?  (That's how I boot BL.)  In that case, I'd extract the contents of the .iso to a directory on C:\ and figure out what loadlin options to use.  Or would I have to try or be better off trying a net install?  The net install would require the laptop to boot from LAN, which the BIOS says it can do, but it would have to use a PCMCIA network card.  I have one, a cardbus Ethernet one that works in DamnSmallLinux (the one I ordered in the mail).  Would that work at boot time?  (For that matter, is DSL an option?  I gave up on it a long time ago but don't remember why.)