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I recently acquired an old IBM Thinkpad (550MHz Celeron) with a broken cd-rom drive. I would like to remove windows and put linux on there. I went through the bios menu's and found that it only boots from FLOPPY, CDROM, or HARD DRIVE. It does have USB and a 10/100 cardbus ethernet. I guess I was wondering if anyone had any creative ideas on how to get linux on this beast or if anyone had and external (usb) floppy disk drive or an external cd-rom that they could bring to the meeting on tuesday night.
thanks, chris
There are adapters that will let you put a laptop hard drive into a regular system. You can pick them up at microcenter for $6 or something. Depending on the distro your wanting to install, you may be able to boot from floppy and do a network install as well.
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 15:10:13 -0600, Christopher Kanaan [email protected] wrote:
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I recently acquired an old IBM Thinkpad (550MHz Celeron) with a broken cd-rom drive. I would like to remove windows and put linux on there. I went through the bios menu's and found that it only boots from FLOPPY, CDROM, or HARD DRIVE. It does have USB and a 10/100 cardbus ethernet. I guess I was wondering if anyone had any creative ideas on how to get linux on this beast or if anyone had and external (usb) floppy disk drive or an external cd-rom that they could bring to the meeting on tuesday night.
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Christopher Kanaan wrote: | I recently acquired an old IBM Thinkpad (550MHz Celeron) with a broken cd-rom | drive. I would like to remove windows and put linux on there. I went through | the bios menu's and found that it only boots from FLOPPY, CDROM, or HARD DRIVE. | It does have USB and a 10/100 cardbus ethernet. I guess I was wondering if | anyone had any creative ideas on how to get linux on this beast or if anyone had | and external (usb) floppy disk drive or an external cd-rom that they could bring | to the meeting on tuesday night. | | thanks, | chris
Chris, ~ I've got a USB floppy I can bring or we could try popping the Ultra bay 2 DVD/CDROM out of mine and into your laptop. I've got a T21.
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On Monday 14 March 2005 03:10 pm, Christopher Kanaan wrote:
I recently acquired an old IBM Thinkpad (550MHz Celeron) with a broken cd-rom drive. I would like to remove windows and put linux on there. I went through the bios menu's and found that it only boots from FLOPPY, CDROM, or HARD DRIVE. It does have USB and a 10/100 cardbus ethernet. I guess I was wondering if anyone had any creative ideas on how to get linux on this beast or if anyone had and external (usb) floppy disk drive or an external cd-rom that they could bring to the meeting on tuesday night.
Does it not have an internal floppy drive?
A lot of those Thinkpad's have removeable/interchangable CD/Floppy drives. If that's what this one has, you shoudl be able to get a CD drive (or a floppy) from eBay. I might even have a brand new floppy drive for it (bought for the wrong model.)
Unless you can get the BIOS updated to boot from USB devices, I don't think you're going to succeed without an internal floppy or CD.
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