On 08/05/13 06:05, Patrick Bartek wrote:
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.
That was the reason I started using Debian. It was the only distro I
could find that would install from floppy on my Toshiba Libretto CT70
alongside the windows 95 I was using on it at the time, and work "out of
the box" with the network card and most of the other hardware. It was
Potato that I stared with.
I also managed to patch and compile a kernel module to support the weird
PCMCIA floppy drive that it used.
I did get X working after some searching and experimenting, but mostly
used it for command line stuff. :)
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Dom
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