[ltp] Re: Booting an X30 off CompactFlash?

Paul Timmins linux-thinkpad@linux-thinkpad.org
30 Jan 2003 07:06:23 -0500


On Thu, 2003-01-30 at 06:26, Paul Crowley wrote:
> I am going quite mad watching this thing boot into XP when it is the
> last thing I want it to boot into.  Has anyone here succeded in making
> an XP machine boot Linux on a machine without internal CD or floppy
> drives?  How did you do it?

I've done it on a Sony Vaio with a USB floppy drive once. I have no
applicable experience with the thinkpad, because every one I've ever
owned or used came with either a cdrom or floppy, or both.
Have you tried a USB floppy drive?
-Paul