Ubuntu 1, Fedora 0

[Timothy Murphy]

Les Mikesell wrote:

>> The Fedora CD#1 would not boot on this machine.
> 
> How did it fail? 

It simply did not boot.
As far as I could see, the CD driver in the Fedora kernel
did not work with the Sony CD reader.
It was possible to compile a kernel that worked with the CD drive,
but I don't recall the details.
(I would have followed advice on the then flourishing
Linux Picturebook mailing list.)


> Copying the boot image to a USB flash drive would be the way to go these
> days.

I've had very little luck with this.
My ThinkPads (T23 and T43) in particular do not seem to boot this way. 

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