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pseb

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From: Marburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-09-27

Posts: 85

Boot from USB-stick on old thinkpad?

Hi,
I have an old Thinkpad 600E. It runs arch linux (and does this really fine), but I just want to try something new...
The thinkpad does not support booting from USB. I wonder if it is possible to boot a linux-distro on an usb-stick (like puppy) using GRUB on the thinkpad's hard drive - maybe someone has done this before or hasn an idea...?
pseb

lilsirecho

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Registered: 2003-10-24

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Re: Boot from USB-stick on old thinkpad?

Check out Faunos which has a cd asist for USB flash boot.

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pseb

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From: Marburg, Germany

Registered: 2007-09-27

Posts: 85

Re: Boot from USB-stick on old thinkpad?

Well, thanks for the reply,  I'll have a closer look at FaunOS, but my laptop doesn't meet its minimal requirements, it's a P2 300 MHz with 224 MB RAM...

dunc

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From: Glasgow, UK

Registered: 2007-06-18

Posts: 549

Re: Boot from USB-stick on old thinkpad?

Puppy's boot floppy is very useful too, and it's fairly easily customizable for other distros (editing the scripts a bit so they look in the right places for the files they need).

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raymano

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Registered: 2006-10-13

Posts: 357

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Re: Boot from USB-stick on old thinkpad?

For older hardware like yours, I would give SliTaz a shot (http://www.slitaz.org/en). It's very small (25MB) and looks very promising. It has had good reviews on linux.com and distrowatch (see http://www.linux.com/feature/140573).

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