Re: OT: Kinda 760XL TP
I used the smart boot manager from sourceforge,w orked like a charm, however I
have found that there is no working xfree86 4.x for this laptop and will have
to revert to a minimum of xfree86 3.3.6
On Tuesday March 29 2005 5:24 pm, Stephen Patterson wrote:
> 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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