linux on an old laptop

[Chris Bier]

-----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-----