On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote: > > Once the floppies are used on bootup, I believe they are not needed again > > (Makes a ramdisk). So you would boot with the floppy, and do that stuff, > > then put CD drive in when it asks for it.. > > I guess I didn't make myself clear. You cannot hot-swap the CD-ROM and > Floppy drives, so if you boot from the floppy, you can't put the CD in > because there is no CD-ROM DRIVE in the machine. If you turn off the > ThinkPad and install the CD-ROM DRIVE, you cannot boot from the floppy. > Catch 22.
My Apologies, I meant as Brandon's reply did.. once the boot floppies are finished, there is no need for them. A reboot, and ta da. I forgot that the floppies themselves install a base system... I did it 9 months ago.. Gosh thats a long time! :) Michael Beattie ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) PGP Key available, reply with "pgpkey" as subject. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- It works fine except when I am in Windows. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Debian GNU/Linux.... Ooohh You are missing out! -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]