SUSE supports a FTP install, if you happen to have a broadband Internet connection. I used that once to install SUSE on a laptop without a CDROM drive. --- crash 3m <crash3m@gmail.com> wrote:

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 <ckanaan@gmail.com> 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.

thanks, chris

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