Re: Thinkpad 760EL floppy?

[Danny Sauer <cloudmaster@cloudmaster.com>]

I've actually got pxe grub up and running for some other machines (hooray 
for consolidated disk space), but the BIOS network boot support on this 
thing is only for a token ring network.  Presumably there was a docking 
station or something that included a token ring adapter, but I'm not 
presently running one of those here. :)

Maybe I should just put it up on eBay and get something newer...

--Danny

On Wednesday 20 April 2005 06:25 am, Herbie wrote:
> Well I have a hard drive adaptor, but not a external floppy, but if it
> boots of the network, get to know pxelinux, it actually could be quicker
> to setup one of your machines to feed it an install image, than to pull
> the harddrive and put it in another machine.
>
> herbie
>
> On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Danny Sauer wrote:
> > So, I've come into an IBM Thinkpad 760EL.  It has a CD drive, and the
> > ability to boot from just about anything *but* the CD drive.  Argh. 
> > It's also got Windows NT 4.0 installed, which is not my first choice o'
> > Operating Systems.  Or the second choice.  It might make the top 10,
> > but just barely.  Anyway, my options appear to be 1) take the hard
> > drive out, hook it to an adapter, and do an install on a PC or 2)
> > obtain a floppy drive (or a token ring network interface, which it
> > could apparently boot from - why anyone would have booted their P133
> > laptop from a network, I'll probably  never know).
> >
> > "Great story, Danny, but why'd you post it to the list?"  Well, I'm
> > hoping someone might have an "ultradrive" floppy drive that might work
> > in this machine, which they might be willing to part with for a couple
> > of days (or sell cheap, I guess).  I'm gonna have to put a fair amount
> > of time into getting anything set up on this thing, so I'd like to
> > limit the financial outlay. :)
> >
> > Drop me a line at luci@dannysauer.com if you can help (replies to the
> > cloudmaster.com account may be missed).
> >
> > --Danny, who can't remember what aliases he's subscribed under, and is
> > far too lazy to check
> >
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