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Re: Anyone running Linux/X on IBM Thinkpad 760LD?

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Erik Troan)
Thu Oct 24 11:46:01 1996

Date: Thu, 24 Oct 1996 11:23:28 -0400 (EDT)
From: Erik Troan <ewt@redhat.com>
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On Wed, 23 Oct 1996, Info junkie wrote:

> I noticed that you can only have the floppy or the CD at any
> point but not both. Or you can buy an external cable and hookup
> the floppy. I wonder how linux would deal with these?
> What boot/root image do i need?

If you have DOS on this machine, you can boot from the CD by running
"q:; cd /dos; ./autoboot.bat" (translate that into the proper DOS
invocations, where q: is your CDROM drive).

Erik

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