[olug] USB Boot and Install

[Christopher R. White]

I figure I should update you all to my progress on this laptop!  I spent 
a long evening and into the night searching and reading info about how 
to get this beast booted.  Turns out USB booting is supported ONLY 
through the use of a USB floppy drive.  I had a couple bucks a friend 
owed me so I ran to Walmart to pickup a drive!  Make a long story short, 
I scrounged around, found another 128 MB Ram stick and a 6 gig HD at a 
friends and am now running SuSE 9.3 on this laptop!

Still looking for a larger HD if anybody happens across one, lemme know!

Chris from Kearney

Rob Townley wrote:
> You may want to see if your current BIOS bootup options support "ATAPI
> Simulation" and enable that.  If there is a firmware update for your
> laptop, i wonder how you could update the BIOS.
>
> You may want to check out these links, especially the Polish one
> because it has been updated when the sourceforge site has not.  The
> screenshots may tell you if the version is newer than the one
> incorporated into DSL.
>
> http://groups.yahoo.com/group/btmgr/links
>
> On 12/20/05, Christopher R. White <cwhite99 at charter.net> wrote:
>   
>> I just traded a 128 MB PC100 SODIMM for  a used IBM Thinkpad X21 system
>> from a friend who could not get an OS installed to it!  Pretty good
>> trade in my opinion!  It's EXTREMELY SMALL - 'bout the size of my old
>> 12" PowerBook and loaded with nifty features like a light above the
>> screen that shines down on the keyboard for low light use!  Plus I love
>> the little mouse stick gadget!
>>
>> The machine has a 700 mhz PIII M processor, some kind of ATI video on a
>> 2x agp w/ 4M of VRAM, 128 MB of PC100 onboard and 1 RAM slot available
>> (empty), onboard 10/100 and 56k modem mini-pci card, CF slot, 1 type II
>> PCMCIA, but it has no HD, no CD-ROM and no Floppy.
>>
>> Basically, I want to pickup a 10 or 20 gig HD (MUST be low profile) and
>> use this as an extremely portable mobile linux machine, but I cannot
>> figure out how to boot this laptop!  Quick google found that booting via
>> USB is an option, but I cannot get my thumbdrive w/ Damn Small Linux to
>> boot this machine.  If I could get something booted, I would like to
>> install to HD once I pick one up.
>>
>> Also, I'm looking for a HD for this machine, anybody got anything
>> available - maybe some more RAM too since I just traded my last stick!
>>
>> Contact me off-list if you have a HD or RAM for sale or trade to work
>> out shipping / pickup.
>>
>>
>> Chris from Kearney
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