IBM 755CD

[Frank 'Crash' Edwards]

On Mon, 2 Aug 1999, Pr. Robert Wurst wrote:
> >Does your Thinkpad model support booting from CD?  The Mandrake CD is
> >bootable.
> 
> No, it doesn't support booting from CD
> 
> >Is there no cable for attaching the floppy drive externally?
> 
> No, don't have that either.

Wow.  You're running out of options!

> >You could mount the CD on another machine and make it available by FTP
> >or NFS, then boot off the floppy and perform a network install.
> 
> That's an idea. I'll have to get a cable and try that. Thanks for the the
> suggestion.

I expected to hear, "Nope, no PC Card slots on this machine." (!)

> Rob

I had an old 486 laptop without a CDROM drive.  And the clone manufacturer
used some PCMCIA chipset that the bootdisk images wouldn't recognize, so
no CDROM, no network, only the floppy.

I ended up taking the drive out and putting it into a 5.25" adapter and
then into a desktop machine.  I went as far as the first reboot.  Then I
turned the machine off and put the drive back into the laptop.  The
installed kernel worked with the MegaHertz NIC and I did the rest of the
install over the network.  (It took awhile, though.)

Where there's a will, there's a way.  Just keep plugging at it.
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