X21 Boot Device / USB CD / PCMCIA CD?

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tradbourne · #1 Post by **tradbourne** » Thu Dec 30, 2004 6:17 am

Will an X21 boot from a USB or PCMCIA CDRom? I have one without a docking station and want to do a clean reinstall of the OS.

Tim

tradbourne · #2 Post by **tradbourne** » Sun Jan 02, 2005 9:38 pm

Is the X21 unable to boot from USB?

regards
Tim

wuy30 · #3 Post by **wuy30** » Mon Jan 03, 2005 7:30 am

if I remeber it right, I could not boot from PCMCIA CD drive, I ended up taking the HD out, put it into another NB, install Xp... then put the HD back into my X21

tradbourne · #4 Post by **tradbourne** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 6:15 am

Is the Slice with installed CDRom or Floppy the only way to boot an X21?

regards
Tim

tradbourne · #5 Post by **tradbourne** » Thu Jan 06, 2005 7:40 pm

UPDATE:

I just successfully booted from a USB (SmartDisk) floppy drive.

I guess this means that the X21 will boot from USB anyways....

regards
Tim

tradbourne · #6 Post by **tradbourne** » Tue Jan 18, 2005 3:46 pm

UPDATE:

Finally got an external kit USB kit that will attach to any IDE device and it works fine. Real flexible and real cheap....

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vi ... K:MEAFB:IT

regards
Tim

X21 Boot Device / USB CD / PCMCIA CD?

X21 Boot Device / USB CD / PCMCIA CD?

I take it the answer is no??

Living without the slice is living dangerously?

And it will boot from USB CD-Rom too

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