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i have been trying to install linux on my aged 760e. the problem is that the cdrom won't boot. i have heard that a bios upgrad will allow the system to boot from the cd, and i have tried a bios update, the problem is you need to boot from a floppy to flash the bios update. anyone know a way around this, or if the bios update does what it purports to?

The 760 won't boot from CD no matter which BIOS version is installed. You'll have to find a work around.

Do a Google search for ThinkPad 760 and Linux on ThinkPad 760. There's plenty of sites out there that will give you instrucitons for Linux on the 760.

There's also a couple threads here on this forum taking about the CD-rom issue and the 760.