On Wednesday 17 November 2004 06:03 am, Aron Smith wrote: > On Wednesday 17 November 2004 02:28 am, John Richard Smith wrote: > > Aron Smith wrote: > > >I have aquired a Compaq laptop Armada 7400 unfortunely it does not have > > > cdrom drive any way i can get mandrake on this puppy > > >I'd really like to do it 'cause the price was right (free) > > > > My Son in Law and I fiddled around with an old IBM thinkpad whose rom > > was broken. > > > > In the end we took it apart and managed to hook up another tempary rom > > drive to do the job. > > It worked for us, but of course the temporaty drive didn't fit the > > thinkpad, > > so we had to put the old one back after we had installed the OS. > > > > Maybe you could extend the ide line another device in much the same way ? > > > > John > > Thankds Guys The nw install is out but I will have to look at it as a > learning experience one good thing I was able to run it in the dos > emulation command line mode so it will have nix of some kind on it Okie Dokie I purchased an adaptor pin 1 isn't marked on the laptop drive its a IBM transtar I don't want to plug this puppy in backwards as two of the lines go to 12v.
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