Le 07.05.2013 23:23, Patrick Bartek a écrit :
Unfortunately, the Thinkpad 240X we're discussing here can't
boot directly off a CD or even a USB thumb drive for that matter.
Natively, it can only boot off a floppy or internal hard drive. (I
said this thing was ancient. ;-) ) And except for the hard drive,
all
other drives are externals.
I understand that kind of problems. My old computer have a CD reader so
it was not too hard... (I had some problems anyway, but I was able to
quickly fix them)
But you can install a system from an ISO quite easily if a system which
support boot customizations is installed (like, by example, Debian).
I did it some times, and I have noticed various issues depending on
your boot loader and partition scheme.
For boot loader, it depends if the installed version is able to
directly boot an ISO or not. If yes, things are made simpler. If not,
you can anyway use a gentoo-like method for installation: boot your
system, create a partition for the future system, make a chroot and do
your installation job from it (I have never tried that with Debian, but
gentoo have a description about how to install gentoo from another
distro, which might be adapted to your needs).
For partition schemes, there are few things I have noticed to help:
* obviously, if you have a /home partition, it helps because you can
split it to create space for the future system, which allows you to keep
a working and reliable system
* if /boot is on it's own partition and if there is enough space, you
can copy there the installation ISO and configure your boot loader to
boot it. Grub is able to boot ISOs IIRC.
* if you can manage enough space in a new partition, you can dd the ISO
on a dedicated partition and boot that partition.
Every time I did such experimentations (I guess, 6-8 in 2 years... I
love to destroy my systems, and I never look at where I am doing it :D)
it took me some times and readings to achieve my goals, but I am a
beginner with linux stuff (*and* a tinkerer, which explains why my
system broke so often ;) ).
But every times I was able to have a fully working system.
Maybe I should redo that for fun tomorrow and write the steps
somewhere, in case it might help someone...
Of course, you can also buy new hardware, but it is not sure it will
fit your needs (you said something does not work on linux and windows
XP? I doubt it will work with windows 8 :D ) and, is not it less fun? ;)
(I understand however that people do not think tinkering with their OS
is fun, and you might be in such situation. Sometimes, people just
wants/needs something which just works.)
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