>>It could be one of the myriad T42 machines with a non-functioning USB >>port.
> It will boot from a DOS floppy in a USB floppy drive connected to either > USB port.. Fair enough. You're lucky, USB ports on many older T42s failed (as we discovered when ours failed, luckily we were still under warranty), so buying used can be a crapshoot. Honestly, though, fighting with these older machines to make them do something that was just becoming possible as they were designed is a bad use of time, IMO. If your goal is to put an OS on the machine, then either use a USB optical drive (which are dirt cheap these days and always handy to have around), or get a 2.5" HDD to USB or IDE or SATA adapter and put the OS on the drive itself in a different machine. (Though on ThinkPads this can sometimes fail because they like the drive to be formatted in the target machine.) As I wrote a couple of days ago to another poster in this list, how much is your time worth? David _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
