[CS-FSLUG] What would you do?

[Ed Hurst]

Taking ideas here...

I was given another Gateway Solo 2500 laptop, but this one has a dead  
CD-ROM. It's wholly unlikely I'll be able to get another CD drive for  
this. The price on one I saw was nearly $100 (I don't trust Ebay, so  
forget that). If I get it running with something, I should be able to  
connect to the Internet and download anything else I need. Since the  
floppy still works, that's the only way I can get an OS started.

Thus, I need an OS that can install from a few floppies (okay, up to 10 is  
tolerable for me). This thing has a P2/233Mhz, 96MB RAM, a 3.6GB  
harddrive, all the usual ports, including two USBs. I don't have access to  
a USB drive, so whatever I use has to actually install from floppies with  
enough utilities to format the harddrive (currently FAT 32), make it  
somewhat useable and have sufficient drivers to recognize when I plug a  
modem into at least the COM port, if not the PCMCIA slot.

What would you do?

-- 
Ed Hurst
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