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Re: OT: Kinda 760XL TP



Bill Day <billday@otecom.net> writes:

> 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).

I've got one of those paperweights too, and yes you'll need boot
floppies (which you can then do a netinst from). The stock debian sarge
or woody ones should do it.

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