Laptops :: booting with external non-bootable CDROM

Hi All,

I just found DSL a couple days ago and I am really impressed with how clean and quick it is. I would like to try it on my IBM Thinkpad 240X laptop but it does not have a bootable CDROM. It only has an external USB CDROM. I was able to get Knoppix going on it using the Knoppix boot floppies, but when I tried the DSL boot floppy it did not find the USB CDROM. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Russ

AAAAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGG!

Please read the info on the main site (damnsmalllinux.org) and under FAQ you will find a link that solves your problem:

http://damnsmalllinux.org/network-install.html

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.....I wanted to make a simple way to install DSL on older laptops that have NO CDROM......

original here.