https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/api.php?action=feedcontributions&feedformat=atom&user=Klinec 2026-04-05T21:50:15Z User contributions MediaWiki 1.31.12 https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Installation_on_ThinkPads_without_CD-ROM_drive&diff=21891 2006-04-23T11:22:18Z

<p>Klinec: </p> <hr /> <div>__TOC__<br /> <br /> I created this article by putting together pieces of information from other sources, accompanied by what i remember from my various installation experiences. But i don't really have experience in any of the proposed procedures myself. So feel free to correct anything that's wrong or extend the article.<br /> <br /> Thanks, [[User:Wyrfel|Wyrfel]] 17:36, 9 Jul 2005 (CEST).<br /> ----<br /> == No CD drive, no floppy, no network card ==<br /> Hi I have ThinkPad 560z that has no CDrom, no floppy and no network card.<br /> I tried to install over the network with 3Com PCMCIA card but it didn't work.<br /> Laptop has an USB but easy-setup doesn't support booting from it. <br /> Any suggestions how to install a system onto it, without removing HDD?<br /> <br /> Thanks<br /> ==PXE ==<br /> For PXE to work, you need to have a ThinkPad with integrated ethernet. I think PXE is supported on all such ThinkPads, but am not 100% sure.&lt;br&gt;<br /> If you have Ethernet without PXE, you could use an [http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/ Etherboot] or [http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ nbgrub] floppy to network boot.<br /> <br /> For USB, you could also use a USB attached CD-ROM drive, or possibly even a USB memorykey, assuming the machine is recent enough that it has USB.<br /> ----<br /> Thanks for the hints. Added some statements that i hope can avoid some misunderstandings (USB). About PXE we'll have to find out. ;-) Also I'd like to get some definitive information about PCMCIA boot support in ThinkPads. It seems my TransNote supports this in general, but not with the HP burner i connected, while neither my X20 nor my T41p showed any option to boot from a CF card in a CF-to-PCMCIA converter.<br /> ----<br /> <br /> i still have problem with ntldr, anyway if i put harddrive from my HP laptop with preinstalled Windows XP, system boots up perfectly.<br /> <br /> ----<br /> Did you read [[How to setup boot loaders]]? What exactly is your problem? [[User:Wyrfel|Wyrfel]] 21:14, 30 Oct 2005 (CET)<br /> ----<br /> <br /> I added a segment on installing via PXE, using Windows as a server, based on my recent experience doing just that on my Transnote. I hope it's helpful; it's my first-ever Wiki submission, I tried to make it fit with the rest of the page.<br /> <br /> [[User:YakkoWarner|YakkoWarner]] 17:53, 16 Nov 2005 (CET)<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Which models allow booting from a USB Stick ==<br /> Especially which X41 models? Thanks<br /> [[User:Oub|Oub]] 17:15, 28 March 2006 (CEST):<br /> ----<br /> See [[Supported Boot Devices]] for that info.<br /> <br /> [[User:Wyrfel|Wyrfel]] 10:28, 29 March 2006 (CEST)<br /> ----</div>

Klinec https://www.thinkwiki.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Installation_on_ThinkPads_without_CD-ROM_drive&diff=21890 2006-04-23T11:21:30Z

<p>Klinec: 560z</p> <hr /> <div>__TOC__<br /> <br /> I created this article by putting together pieces of information from other sources, accompanied by what i remember from my various installation experiences. But i don't really have experience in any of the proposed procedures myself. So feel free to correct anything that's wrong or extend the article.<br /> <br /> Thanks, [[User:Wyrfel|Wyrfel]] 17:36, 9 Jul 2005 (CEST).<br /> ----<br /> == No CD drive, no floppy, no network card ==<br /> Hi I have ThinkPad 560z that has no CDrom, no floppy and no network card.<br /> I tried to install over the network with 3Com PCMCIA card but it didn't work.<br /> Laptop has an USB but it easy-setup doesn't support booting from it. <br /> Any suggestions how to install a system onto it, without removing HDD?<br /> <br /> Thanks<br /> ==PXE ==<br /> For PXE to work, you need to have a ThinkPad with integrated ethernet. I think PXE is supported on all such ThinkPads, but am not 100% sure.&lt;br&gt;<br /> If you have Ethernet without PXE, you could use an [http://etherboot.sourceforge.net/ Etherboot] or [http://www.gnu.org/software/grub/ nbgrub] floppy to network boot.<br /> <br /> For USB, you could also use a USB attached CD-ROM drive, or possibly even a USB memorykey, assuming the machine is recent enough that it has USB.<br /> ----<br /> Thanks for the hints. Added some statements that i hope can avoid some misunderstandings (USB). About PXE we'll have to find out. ;-) Also I'd like to get some definitive information about PCMCIA boot support in ThinkPads. It seems my TransNote supports this in general, but not with the HP burner i connected, while neither my X20 nor my T41p showed any option to boot from a CF card in a CF-to-PCMCIA converter.<br /> ----<br /> <br /> i still have problem with ntldr, anyway if i put harddrive from my HP laptop with preinstalled Windows XP, system boots up perfectly.<br /> <br /> ----<br /> Did you read [[How to setup boot loaders]]? What exactly is your problem? [[User:Wyrfel|Wyrfel]] 21:14, 30 Oct 2005 (CET)<br /> ----<br /> <br /> I added a segment on installing via PXE, using Windows as a server, based on my recent experience doing just that on my Transnote. I hope it's helpful; it's my first-ever Wiki submission, I tried to make it fit with the rest of the page.<br /> <br /> [[User:YakkoWarner|YakkoWarner]] 17:53, 16 Nov 2005 (CET)<br /> <br /> <br /> ==Which models allow booting from a USB Stick ==<br /> Especially which X41 models? Thanks<br /> [[User:Oub|Oub]] 17:15, 28 March 2006 (CEST):<br /> ----<br /> See [[Supported Boot Devices]] for that info.<br /> <br /> [[User:Wyrfel|Wyrfel]] 10:28, 29 March 2006 (CEST)<br /> ----</div>

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