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Location: I live on a remote island with no trees ...very cold..
Distribution: red hat 9
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the Exorsisim of Vin Doz Nintee Fifv
Hi folks
perhaps someone can help me... I have an old Toshiba Satellite105cs laptop with an external 4x cd rom reader conected via a panasonic interface card running win 95,...yes saton (mickey soft) has posesesed this little beast and must be exorsised and replaced by Linux. I am having truble because i cant boot from the external and I only have cd versions of Linux...help
Location: I live on a remote island with no trees ...very cold..
Distribution: red hat 9
Posts: 15
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hmm
while those links are good they are not hard to find what is giving me trouble is that I cant seam to get any thing to boot and I need t o know how to get the lap top to recognize the external as a boot-able drive. Normally i would take your advice and sit down and read through that stuff but as it is I am working 12 hours a day 7days a week. any short cuts?
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the Exorsisim of Vin Doz Nintee Fifv
Hi folks 
