linux on an old laptop

[crash 3m]

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 at 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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