Re: how to make my Thinkpad a Linux box
What I did in a similar situation (machine doens't have a floppy and the
CDROM cannot boot) is to use fips, repartition windows to minimal terms,
downlads the kernel into the wndows partition and use syslinux to boot
from it. I haven't tried on newer windows but on 95/98 worked great. I
then use the windows partion as swap.
graziano
On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:44:28AM -0300, Leonardo Boiko wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 22, 2002 at 10:22:40AM -0300, Luciano Andino wrote:
> > Hi to everyone! I'm new with Linux and laptops and want to put maybe?
> > Debian on it. My problem is: My IBM Thinkpad 560X 200MHz (win98) has no
> > cdrom o floppy, only a parallel port. How can I make it a Linux Box? Is
> > it possible with an external ZIP if it is not booteable?
> I had a similar problem; my friend's Thinkpad 365XD can't boot by cdrom,
> and we were without a floppy drive. Since it came with Windows, what we
> did was running some installation program (don't remember the name)
> from the Debian CDs.
> But since I can't reinstall anything, I'd like to hear other solutions
> to this problem.
>
> --
> Leonardo Boiko
> "How idiotic, nobody from a hundred years ago is around today. All
> traces of them have vanished. But forgetting this, we desire
> trivial things and become planners and schemers. How stupid!"
> -- Suzuki Shosan
>
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