Ubuntu 1, Fedora 0

[Les Mikesell]

Timothy Murphy wrote:
> 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.

How about a PXE network boot?

> My ThinkPads (T23 and T43) in particular do not seem to boot this way. 
> 

Hmmm, if you had used this version of ubuntu it would have been
ubuntu 0, fedora 0 on this box...

http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=75446

Bios update time?

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