Re: OT: Kinda 760XL TP
On Tuesday 29 March 2005 17:16, Jacob S wrote:
> 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
Smartboot is quite good and should get around the BIOS issue.
I have Debian running quite nicely on an ancient 760C. My model doesn't have
a CD drive so I just pulled the HD and plunked it into a desktop for the
install. It DID feel like cheating, but it was worth it.
Good luck
Branden Faulls
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