[plug] blowing away WindowsME

[Trent Lloyd]

can you boot from a cdrom? or perhaps even a network boot might be possible?

At 03:32 PM 29/12/2001 +0800, you wrote:
>Hi guys,
>
>I've been trying to help my brother to install RH7.1 on his IBM ThinkPad 
>i1200. He wants to move over to Linux because:
>1. Windoze runs his battery down in less than 90min;
>2.  It's unstable;
>3. Windoze ME behaves more like a virus than an operating system (as I've 
>discovered trying to blow it away from the HD).
>
>I've tried installing 3 different types of Linux, and have tried using the 
>pcmcia.img on a floppy boot disk as well as boot.img on a boot floppy and 
>we're still getting the same error message: Boot failed.
>We can't even seem to get a foothold on the mbr/HD. Has anyone else had 
>this problem? I think that the rest of the boot process would be a cinch 
>if I could only get started. Any suggestions?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Sol