Boot diskette needed for Thinkpad 380XD

[Hellmark]

I just got this thinkpad and I need a bootdisk because it doesnt boot from CD. It has a builtin cd drive and diskette drive. So far I've tried an old SuSE 7.0 boot disk I have (didnt work at all), and also the knoppix PCMCIA boot disk (craps out on loading miniroot.gz).

Can anyone help me?

[rickenbacherus]

There are a few solutions for you.
1) You could mount the Knoppix cd in windows and use rawrite to put the boot.img onto a floppy or..

2) Go to SmartBootManger and you can boot any cd from floppy not just Knoppix.

[Hellmark]

On the first method, same results as the PCMCIA boot disk, however the smart boot disk manager worked like a charm

THANK YOU!

Next stop, Hard drive install!

[rickenbacherus]

Right-on. Glad you got it working. SBM is my preference too.