linux on an old laptop

[Christopher Kanaan]

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I recently acquired an old IBM Thinkpad (550MHz Celeron) with a broken cd-rom
drive.  I would like to remove windows and put linux on there.  I went through
the bios menu's and found that it only boots from FLOPPY, CDROM, or  HARD DRIVE.
It does have USB and a 10/100 cardbus ethernet.  I guess I was wondering if
anyone had any creative ideas on how to get linux on this beast or if anyone had
and external (usb) floppy disk drive or an external cd-rom that they could bring
to the meeting on tuesday night.

thanks,
chris
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