On 07/05/13 22:23, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Tue, 07 May 2013, berenger.mo...@neutralite.org wrote:
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I
said this thing was ancient. ;-) ) And except for the hard drive, all
other drives are externals.
Having worked with even more ancient hardware, may I suggest you try the
PLOP boot manager for installation? It can be put on a floppy and
supports boot from various devices even when the BIOS doesn't support
them. I used it to boot the Wheezy installer from a USB stick on a
Pentium MMX 166MHz sub-notebook with 32MB of memory and 2GB hard drive.
I only just managed to get it to install by allocating a swap partition
in the early stages of the install. But it did work :)
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Dom
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