Les Mikesell wrote: >> The Fedora CD#1 would not boot on this machine. > > How did it fail? It simply did not boot. As far as I could see, the CD driver in the Fedora kernel did not work with the Sony CD reader. It was possible to compile a kernel that worked with the CD drive, but I don't recall the details. (I would have followed advice on the then flourishing Linux Picturebook mailing list.) > Copying the boot image to a USB flash drive would be the way to go these > days. I've had very little luck with this. My ThinkPads (T23 and T43) in particular do not seem to boot this way. -- Timothy Murphy e-mail (<80k only): tim /at/ birdsnest.maths.tcd.ie tel: +353-86-2336090, +353-1-2842366 s-mail: School of Mathematics, Trinity College, Dublin 2, Ireland