[lug] PCMCIA Boot Disk Driver

[Ferdinand Schmid]

Sean Reifschneider wrote:

> On Mon, Oct 08, 2001 at 03:05:07PM -0600, Dan Kuester wrote:
> 
>>I get (or make, if necessary) a boot disk to allow me to boot with the
>>proper drivers so that I can install over my network?
>>
> 
> I don't know, but one thing to consider, if all else fails, is...  They
> make these adapters that let you plug in a notebook hard drive to a regular
> IDE cable...  Load Linux on another box and move the hard drive back over.
> Or, alternatively, copy the data to a partition on the IDE hard drive, and
> install directly from there.  The installer has an option for doing that...
> 
> I did expactly this when I got my latest laptop.  You see, it didn't come
> with a floppy or CD drive.  You have to get this docking-station to get
> either one...

... or you get a USB floppy (for $99).  Then you can boot from floppy for less 
than the cost of a docking station.  But I still can't understand what IBM was 
thinking when they decided that their X20 series laptops didn't need a serial or 
parallel port!  Again you are back to USB adapters - what a pain!


> 
> Sean
> 



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