On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > Aron Smith wrote: > >I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have > > cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy > >I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) > > My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom > was broken. > > In the end we took it apart and managed to hook up another tempary rom > drive to do the job. > It worked for us, but of course the temporaty drive didn't fit the > thinkpad, > so we had to put the old one back after we had installed the OS. > > Maybe you could extend the ide line another device in much the same way ? > > John Thankds Guys The nw install is out but I will have to look at it as a learning experience one good thing I was able to run it in the dos emulation command line mode so it will have nix of some kind on it
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