Boot from PCMCIA - CF?

Forum: Laptops
Topic: Boot from PCMCIA - CF?
started by: TotalImmortal

Posted by TotalImmortal on June 01 2005,17:51

Hi,
I am running DSL on an old laptop without a HDD, Idealy i would like to do a frugal install to a CF card on the PCMCIA adaptor i have.
I have done this, however it is not bootable.. does anyone know where i could get a boot disk image that will allow me to boot from PCMCIA-HDD??
Thanks

Posted by namezk on June 01 2005,17:53

your laptop BIOS has to support booting from it, see if you can select that in the boot options.

Posted by TotalImmortal on June 01 2005,18:12

The laptop is a thinkpad 370z which unfortunatly dosn't support it in BIOS, is there a boot floppy that will allow me to do it?
Thanks

Posted by roberts on June 02 2005,04:52

See this < thread > for information on a pcmcia boot floppy

Posted by jls legalize on June 02 2005,13:33

the link for the bootfloppy is dead

Posted by cbagger01 on June 02 2005,16:38

You may be able to get it to boot by booting DSL on a different computer and then copy the pcmcia driver module files over to a 2nd floppy disk.

Then, boot DSL on your target machine via the normal boot floppy with the "expert" cheatcode.

Then insert your driver floppy and type in the module when prompted.

I have never done this, but in theory it should work.

Good Luck.