[plug] blowing away WindowsME

[Sol]

Trent Lloyd wrote:

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

No can do. Just tried booting from cdrom just 2 minutes ago - Boot 
failed. Have tried messing with the BIOS settings to no avail. And 
there's no network card so that's ruled out too.
I've been on the web too. The closest example was at 
http://hushome.com/linux/ibmtp1200-howto.html  Unfortunately, we haven't 
even got to step one.
The problem for us isn't so much installing Linux as getting rid of 
WinME. (This isn't really OT though - blowing away windows is of 
interest to most Linux people. :)

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> At 03:32 PM 29/12/2001 +0800, you wrote:
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>> Hi guys,
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>> 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).
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>> 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
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