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
I have two questions before I try to install Linux on my Thinkpad 755CD
1. The ~680 Meg hard-disk is currently DoubleSpaced under Windows 95 to
look like almost 1.2 Gig. Is there any way I can re-partition it to have
a dual boot, or do I need to just scrub it and install Linux (I don't
mind
On Tue, 23 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote:
I have two questions before I try to install Linux on my Thinkpad 755CD
1. The ~680 Meg hard-disk is currently DoubleSpaced under Windows 95 to
look like almost 1.2 Gig. Is there any way I can re-partition it to have
a dual boot, or do I need to
Also just to add to what Michael said...
If you have any errors with your boot disks, you should try the
floppy=thinkpad at the boot prompt. My thinkpad will not work without it
(750)
and I am pretty sure you will need the same think.
As for the compressed Win95 drive... I would backup all
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
On Wed, 24 Jun 1998, Paul Johnson wrote:
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
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
I installed debian 1.3 on my thinkpad 760xl and as I recall it wasn't that bad
if you had the external floppy drive using a port replicator. so that's about
extra $300 or $400 or something (I don't remember) but the drive was (and is)
recognized by debian instantly and then I was able to install
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