Bart Schaefer wrote: > I've found an old IBM OmniBook 800 and am curious whether I can get it > going again. (Currently it boots either Windows 95 or some > then-contemporary version of Slackware.) The CDROM is external (SCSI, > I think) and the machine won't boot from it, so it'd require a boot > floppy. Any suggestions? Or is CentOS entirely the wrong Linux to be > thinking about for this? True, this is out of my league, and I'm just brainstorming, but ... Does it have a pcmcia slot? Does anyone make a USB-pcmcia adapter? Set up a usb stick to boot from. Good? Or, am I totally off base? :)