Hi I am about to abandon my ThinkPad 600E project as more and more parts are breaking. I have been looking at a 240X for its size and processor wise it is a lot more powerful than my 600E although the RAM limit is lower.
The 240X machines I have been looking at do not come with external CD drive and as these machines do not have internal ones nor the option to boot from USB this makes getting an OS on them tricky. However, I have a 600E which dual boots Linux Mint 9 LXDE and Windows XP Home and wondered how much trouble it would cause if I simply removed the hard drive from my 600E and popped it in the 240X. I did this from a 600 to a 600E and XP moaned a little and could find drivers initially for the changed hardware but once sorted it worked fine. Do you think this would work ok with a bit of fiddling? It has to be an easier option than trying to get an os installed via other means. Also, I know the 240X boots from PCMCIA CDROM, will it boot from any or does it have to be an IBM one or a specific one? Simon Royal --- Twitter: http://twitter.com/SimonRoyal - LowEndMac: http://tinyurl.com/macspectrum - Skype: Simon-Royal. --- IBM ThinkPad 600E running Linux Mint 9 LXDE & Windows XP & Apple iBook G3 running OSX 10.4. _________________________________________________________________ http://clk.atdmt.com/UKM/go/195013117/direct/01/ We want to hear all your funny, exciting and crazy Hotmail stories. Tell us now _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
