On Tue, 15 Feb 2005 05:10:07 -0700 Lee Einer wrote: > > Rob Wultsch wrote: > > >Second for smart boot manager. It just works. > > > > > >On Mon, 14 Feb 2005 19:43:39 -0700, Dennis Kibbe > > wrote: > > > > > >>On Fri, 11 Feb 2005 08:14:47 -0700 > >>Lee Einer wrote: > >> > >> > >> > >>>On that note, the second snag into which I have run is that this laptop > >>>has a switchable drive bay which will acomodate either a bootable floppy > >>>drive, or a NON-bootable CD-Rom drive. How to install Mepis in the > >>>absence of a bootable CD-Rom drive? > >>> > >>> > >>My usual answer here is to use the SmartBootManager floppy to boot the CD-ROM, but. . . > >> > > OK. I have downloaded SmartBootManager image to a floppy. > > How do I use it to boot the CDROM when I have to pull out the diskette > drive in order to insert the CDROM drive? Well, you can't, of course. That's the problem. > >>Check the Mepis forums, mepis may support a NFS install. > >> > No mention of this on the Mepis site. Actually, there is. I found it by typing "installing mepis without a cdrom" into Google. it was the first link -- http://www.mepis.org/node/view/2210. Another way is to remove the hard drive from then ThinkPad and connect it to a desktop to install/or transfer the files. You can use an external USB box to connect the drive or there are adapters (cyberguys.com) that will connect a 2.5" drive to an 3.5" IDE ribbon cable. > Lee Einer > Dos Manos Jewelry > http://www.dosmanosjewelry.com Dennisk --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss