On 07/05/13 22:23, Patrick Bartek wrote:
On Tue, 07 May 2013, berenger.morel@neutralite.org wrote: Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter. Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I said this thing was ancient. ;-) ) And except for the hard drive, all other drives are externals.
Having worked with even more ancient hardware, may I suggest you try the PLOP boot manager for installation? It can be put on a floppy and supports boot from various devices even when the BIOS doesn't support them. I used it to boot the Wheezy installer from a USB stick on a Pentium MMX 166MHz sub-notebook with 32MB of memory and 2GB hard drive. I only just managed to get it to install by allocating a swap partition in the early stages of the install. But it did work :)
-- Dom