[ltp] Re: Booting an X30 off CompactFlash?

[Paul Crowley]

Paul Timmins <paul@timmins.net> writes:

> 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? 

I don't have access to one.  However it sounds like the guy in the
shop was talking nonsense, and a USB CDROM boot should work just fine.

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