Re: booting from a pcmcia card on a thinkpad 560x.
On Sun, Feb 08, 2004 at 01:57:44PM +0000, debian@isabeldeespana.org wrote:
> I have got an old thinkpad 560x. The problem is that this laptop doesn't
> have device for diskette. On the Easy Setup I have seen that you can boot
> from a pcmcia card.
> I think in a pcmcia ata or scsi card and connect a cdrom here, them put a
> bootable cdrom with debian, and install it.
I doubt that you may able to boot a laptop from a PCMCIA storage
device. But just in case there is the Compact Flash Linux Project
http://web.tvnetwork.hu/~krichy/cfdev/
Anyway there are plenty of installation methods for laptops without
floppy drive, see the Linux-Mobile-Guide
http://tuxmobil.org/howtos.html
Werner
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