Re: Newbie Thinkpad question
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote:
> I guess I didn't make myself clear. You cannot hot-swap the CD-ROM and
> Floppy drives, so if you boot from the floppy, you can't put the CD in
> because there is no CD-ROM DRIVE in the machine. If you turn off the
> ThinkPad and install the CD-ROM DRIVE, you cannot boot from the floppy.
> Catch 22.
Make your floppies, install from floppy disk drive. Before the end of
the installation, select lilo or make system bootable from harddrive. Put
in your cdrom and boot the system, ta da. Note, that it's good to have a
spare machine with all the floppy images and base disks so you can remake
them when you realize you have a bad floppy.
> It must be possible to install Linux on a Thinkpad, because I have read
> that people have done it, but no one has touched on this particula
> point. Maybe I'm missing something.
They are probably the hardest installation because it requires the tecra
disks and sometimes the floppy=thinkpad option. Also, once some people
have done it, we never hear from them again, so it makes to hard to know
if they gave up on linux, or just decided to not report the successful
install.
HTH,
Brandon
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