On Wed, 08 May 2013, Dom wrote: > 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 :)
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it. Although, I think it's about time I just get a new Thinkpad. ;-) FWIW, when I originally thought of installing Linux on the Thinkpad 7 years ago, and noted the inherent problems, I did tried several floppy-based boot managers/utilities, but none of them worked. The external CD drive was either never recognized or was inaccessable: The install CD never booted. So, I looked for distros that had a boot floppy option. Debian Sarge was the winner. B -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20130507220543.4a433...@debian7.boseck208.net
