[plug] blowing away WindowsME

[Trent Lloyd]

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>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. :)
haha

what sort of boot disk are you making and how are you making one
try for example getting the debian boot disk (ftp.debian.org) and using 
rawritewin to write it and see if it boots
or some other bootdisk (some DOS disk from www.bootdisk.com)