Posts by dwf

Quote: Originally Posted by rincewind whats wrong with your SD drive? i use mine daily to transfer pics from my camra to my laptop Do you mean to boot off of? I don't think the BIOS can see that drive either....

Do any of these systems people have provide a USB boot option. Mine enables boot from the HDD, CD-ROM, floppy (which doesn't exist), and optionally the network. I would like to boot from an external USB HDD for an alternative OS. ...

I have the same machine purchased from a local store. It is very nice. I installed Suse 9.1 Linux on it and it discovered all the hardware flawlessly except the wireless and the SD memory card. All the rest works great in Linux. ...

I've put Suse 9.1 on the 2056 notebook with good success. It doesn't seem to have the wireless drivers nor does it see the SD card, but most other things seem to work ok. The problem I'm having is trying to boot from an external USB...