On 08/05/13 06:05, Patrick Bartek wrote:
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.
That was the reason I started using Debian. It was the only distro I could find that would install from floppy on my Toshiba Libretto CT70 alongside the windows 95 I was using on it at the time, and work "out of the box" with the network card and most of the other hardware. It was Potato that I stared with.
I also managed to patch and compile a kernel module to support the weird PCMCIA floppy drive that it used.
I did get X working after some searching and experimenting, but mostly used it for command line stuff. :)
-- Dom