I bought an IBM Thinkpad 240X off ebay recently - it's a lovely machine, and I'm incredibly pleased with it. however, I had a monster of a time getting an OS on to it... it can't boot from USB, so that ruled out a CDROM boot, I got an ftp install of debian on there, only to discover that it was slooooooow. I tried to get gentoo on there, but I couldn't hack together a boot diskette that'd get me anywhere. Eventually, I got dsl on to the hard disk by putting it into a different laptop, and installing it. Obviously, this only works because dsl (like knoppix, come to think of it) re-detects the hardware each time.
Now: my question to all of you is this: have any of you people got this laptop, and if so, what was your experience of installing linux on to it like? I've been wondering if I can get a more comprehensive distro on there than DSL (I figure I won't get anything faster on there, to be sure, but something at least comparable with more in it would be nice...).
Any suggestions?

I have Debian 4.0 running beautifully on my 240x. I used the floppies to do a network install and though it did take a few hours, it runs great and is very full-featured. I have KDE, GNOME, XFCE, IceWM and others on an 80GB HDD. I think Debian may be the best Distro as it is one of the few that can install via floppy. The BSD's can also install via floppy, but those may be less full-featured than Linux in general.