linux on old laptop with 8 MB RAM

[Peter Dobratz]

I was given a Toshiba 105cs laptop.  Specs:

Pentium 75 Mhz
500 MB HDD
8 MB RAM
1 3.5 inch floppy

I believe this laptop had windows 95 on it originally, but the hard 
drive has been formatted fat32.  This does have 2 PCMCIA (type II) 
slots.  We want to use this computer mainly for some word processing, 
so I thought that it would be good to install linux on it.  I got a 
3com PCMCIA NIC and attempted to install Debian GNU/Linux.  However, 
the installation program crashes because we don't enough RAM (Debian 
requires 12 MB).  A test using memtest86+ did run successfully and 
confirm the fact that we have 8 MB.  I looked around, and apparently we 
have the option of installing a 32 MB memory module that retails for 
about $50.  However, if we can utilize this computer without upgrading 
it that would be ideal.

Are there any Linux distributions that can be installed from a 
floppy/network configuration that will install with 8 MB of RAM?

Thanks for the help,
--Peter