Re: Thinkpad 760EL floppy?

[Herbie <technowombat@yahoo.com>]

Well I have a hard drive adaptor, but not a external floppy, but if it 
boots of the network, get to know pxelinux, it actually could be quicker 
to setup one of your machines to feed it an install image, than to pull 
the harddrive and put it in another machine.

herbie

On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Danny Sauer wrote:

> So, I've come into an IBM Thinkpad 760EL.  It has a CD drive, and the
> ability to boot from just about anything *but* the CD drive.  Argh.  It's
> also got Windows NT 4.0 installed, which is not my first choice o'
> Operating Systems.  Or the second choice.  It might make the top 10, but
> just barely.  Anyway, my options appear to be 1) take the hard drive out,
> hook it to an adapter, and do an install on a PC or 2) obtain a floppy
> drive (or a token ring network interface, which it could apparently boot
> from - why anyone would have booted their P133 laptop from a network, I'll
> probably  never know).
>
> "Great story, Danny, but why'd you post it to the list?"  Well, I'm hoping
> someone might have an "ultradrive" floppy drive that might work in this
> machine, which they might be willing to part with for a couple of days (or
> sell cheap, I guess).  I'm gonna have to put a fair amount of time into
> getting anything set up on this thing, so I'd like to limit the financial
> outlay. :)
>
> Drop me a line at luci@dannysauer.com if you can help (replies to the
> cloudmaster.com account may be missed).
>
> --Danny, who can't remember what aliases he's subscribed under, and is far
> too lazy to check
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