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Posted: Oct. 27 2006,22:12

Well, my primary notebook died, and I have an IBM Thinkpad 560Z that I wanted to use. The only problem is I haven't found a proper replacement harddrive for it.

I was intending to use a PCMCIA to CF (Compact Flash) adapter and a 128MB CF card that I have lying around the house, but I can't figure out how to install DSL to it. Mind you, the notebook does not have a CDROM drive or a Floppy drive - I have a cardreader for a desktop that I have.

Is this possible, or should I get myself a machine with all that I am missing?

Much Obliged for th help!

roberts

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Posted: Oct. 28 2006,18:08

I have used the ideCF adapters to frugal install DSL to CF, as an ordinary hard drive, hda. Then placed the ideCF into a laptop as a replacement hard drive. Since DSL autodetects upon boot no problems.

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Posted: Oct. 29 2006,23:51

Thanks for the tip. Eager to use this machine again - it isn't big on power (300Mhz PII, 64MB RAM) but it isn't big on size or weight either. It's about an inch thick and the size of a sheet of paper.....

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