"obakesan" <cjundieseastwd@powerup.com.au> wrote in message
news:bkqlsb$fk8$1@kraken.itc.gu.edu.au...
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>
> ok, but I think the IBM drive, is USB  not sure if that'll boot from a usb
> device ... and yep, I wanna wipe the partition totally and start again
with
> my disks :-)
>
> who knows, may even wish to ferret about with Linux on it ...
> >

Something here http://tinyurl.com/oj9d about this IBM USB cd-drive being
bootable - perhaps someone else would kindly provide an accurate
translation.

BTW - nice looking notebook.

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jonathan