Re: OT: Kinda 760XL TP
On Tue, 29 Mar 2005 10:22:42 -0500
Bill Day <billday@otecom.net> wrote:
> I have an old IBM ThinkPad 760XL. I am considering removing windows
> from it. The hard part is it does not support booting from cdrom. I
> have a the sarge net install disk, knoppix live and suse live eval
> disc but cannot for the life of me figure out how to get this thing
> to boot from the cdrom(there are no bios updates for it either).
>
> Any ideas tips directions for getting the live cd to boot so I can
> decide whether or not it would be worth running debian on this
> laptop.
I would recommend trying Smartboot Manager from
http://btmgr.sourceforge.net/about.html . Then you can boot from floppy,
cdrom, hard drive, etc. without needing to flash your BIOS.
HTH,
Jacob
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