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Posted: July 09 2008,18:24 QUOTE
The laptop refuses to boot off of the floppy you suggested.

I messed around a bit and found this laptop dual boots OS/2 AND Windows 3.1/DOS.

I found a 16bit LAN card in a box of old parts, and it won't recognize it. It does recognize my 6mb EEPROM PCMCIA card, although no other laptop I own does.
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Posted: July 09 2008,19:23 QUOTE
Tomsrtbt is a bit non-standard in that it's on a 1.72mb floppy. A bit of trimming would make it fit on a 1.44mb one, which is bootable on more drives.
Or you could search for other linux floppy distros with suitable networking support.

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Posted: July 09 2008,20:52 QUOTE
I found a driver for Windows 3.11 for my Addonics PCMCIA CD-ROM.

I just need a driver for Windows 2000 (what my ThinkPad 600E runs) for my 6mb PCMCIA flash disk so I can transfer the CD-ROM driver to the ThinkPad 701CS, as both the IBM OS and Windows 3.11 recognize and explore the flash disk.

That'll make is so I can do the poorman install of DSL.

Now to wait for the flash disk driver...
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Posted: July 10 2008,08:30 QUOTE
Why not boot DSL on your new laptop? It's quite possible for your pcmcia flash disk to be supported out of the box on DSL.

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Posted: July 10 2008,16:35 QUOTE
The way the IBM uses Windows is it emulates Windows 3.11.

There's no way to access my computer and explore the CD-ROM.

I'm stuck as I can't do a loadlin install and a poorman install is nearly impossible.

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