-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 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. Chris - -- I digitally sign my emails. If you see an attachment with .asc, then that means your email client doesn't support PGP digital signatures. http://www.gnupg.org/(en)/documentation/faqs.html#q1.1 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.5 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Thunderbird - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFCNgVxE5xXU3JS1mQRAv6fAJ9vmlHsn573CcHvxMoFgRuOAyhR1gCfWYT/ 3HDvpBbG9NMAaMdpuRX/ExY= =PIVG -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----