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Can you boot off a USB 2.0 optical drive?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:04 am
by devilsrejection
I ask because I always do fresh install.
That and it's cheaper than the ultrabase.
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:44 am
by madana
So I assume that you can boot off the Ultrabase?
Pardom me for the question, but I was just about to ask it on a fresh thread.
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:19 am
by bigtiger
I would say so.
I have X40 and X24. They can all boot of a USB dvd drive. I cannot imagine IBM would disable this feature.
Re: Can you boot off a USB 2.0 optical drive?
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:01 pm
by smvp6459
devilsrejection wrote:I ask because I always do fresh install.
That and it's cheaper than the ultrabase.
Yes. I have an external USB 2 optical drive and I booted off of it to install Vista and run Knoppix.
The machine can also boot off a floppy, USB flash drive, network, and probably a few other drives as well. Probably can't boot off the SD card reader and I don't think it can boot off the PCMCIA reader.
Posted: Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:58 pm
by devilsrejection
Thanks everyone