Linux on an old laptop

[Brian Kelsay]

If I know you are coming, I can bring to the meeting an adapter that does this.  You should bring the spare PC and the laptop.  Or if you twist my arm, we could put your drive in my laptop, which has a working CD-ROM.  Bring any screwdrivers you may need to get the drive out of the laptop and/or drive tray.  Most of my tools for this are scattered or unavailable at the moment.

Brian Kelsay

Brian Kelsay

>>> crash 3m <crash3m at gmail.com> 03/14/05 03:21PM >>>
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, CD-ROM, 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