I second that recommendation...X31 units have become quite inexpensive...
Been a while since I've owned one, but didn't X24 had that slot as well? Cheers, George -----Original Message----- From: Bruce Markowitz <[email protected]> To: [email protected]; Andrew King <[email protected]>; [email protected] Sent: Tue, Feb 16, 2010 10:45 pm Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Putting a CF in a 570 If you pick up an X31 (and I see them around pretty cheap) I think that will do it. It has a built in CF slot. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Donald MacQueen" <[email protected]> To: "Andrew King" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, February 16, 2010 10:28 PM Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Putting a CF in a 570 > well ...... since it appears that I have toasted my bios, I probably won't > > be using -this- 570. > > The Plan was to use Ubuntu and whatever its equivalent of Winamp is. > > Two, it is still not clear to me that the 570, even with an upgraded bios, > > would 'see' the CF card in the adapter. > > All I need is a machine that -will- support CF boot, about 256 megs of > > memory, and ethernet and sound connectors. > > ---- Original message ---- >>Date: Tue, 16 Feb 2010 21:53:35 -0500 >>From: Andrew King <[email protected]> >>Subject: Re: [Thinkpad] Putting a CF in a 570 >>To: [email protected] >> >>>> I am trying to turn my 57) into a netbook by using a Cf card and an >>>> [snip] >>> I meant netbook as a small diskless machine. This one is for internet >>> radio and itunes. >> >>I've been thinking of setting up a 560X for internet radio. >>What OS and software are you thinking of? >> >>Andrew in Ann Arbor >>_______________________________________________ >>Thinkpad mailing list >>[email protected] >>http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad > _______________________________________________ > Thinkpad mailing list > [email protected] > http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
