booting old hardware

[Bailey, Michael L [NTK]]

-----Original Message-----
 can't install from newer OpenBSD
cdroms. So I have to use a floppy 
Jonathan
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and then, 
On Friday 14 January 2005 07:44 am, Bill Cavalieri wrote:
> Just use a usb cdrom then, and if the box doesn't support that, 
> then it should be given to Hal :) 

My situation:
IBM ThinkPad 760E CDRom - Pentium I 
SUSE 2.3 (the book says Pentium I & 32megs is all it needs, and has a
CD)
floppy drive is bad (floppies good elsewhere look bad to this machine)

And Jonathan also wrote
> I think booting to a CD on a PCMCIA adapter would be unlikely.

That's what I was going to try if I could get a driver installed...
So if that won't work, would a USB CD drive (using some kind of adapter,
the 760E has neither CD drive nor USB port) boot?

Alternatively, maybe I should give it to Hal (? "open the pod bay door",
that Hal?)