Re: Debian 7 Wheezy Stable Relelased
On Wed, 08 May 2013, Dom wrote:
> 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 :)
Thanks for the suggestion. I'll look into it. Although, I think it's
about time I just get a new Thinkpad. ;-)
FWIW, when I originally thought of installing Linux on the Thinkpad 7
years ago, and noted the inherent problems, I did tried several
floppy-based boot managers/utilities, but none of them worked. The
external CD drive was either never recognized or was inaccessable: The
install CD never booted. So, I looked for distros that had a boot
floppy option. Debian Sarge was the winner.
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