I'm trying to install Linux on the older thinkpad r31. I have several cd's but the optical disk drive seems to have passed away or is simply dying.
I made an usb stick woth unetbootin to install from usb. But it seems I cannot boot from usb.
I've read (and replied as i thought it was a valuable contribution to one of the replies) this post:
How to install Ubuntu on a IBM R31 Thinkpad
My boot devices list is without an usb device and I found at the lenovo support pages that boot usb support is mentioned on the x31 page regarding a bios update, but I cannot read anything about boot usb support for the R31 on its Lenovo bios update support page.
lenovo r31 support page: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS014002
lenovo x31 support page: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/downloads/detail.page?DocID=DS003898 where this is written:
Reserved Area
The following conventional memory addresses are reserved by BIOS and others. •C0000-CFFFF : Reserved for Video BIOS
•D0000-D3FFF : Reserved for Option ROM of Ethernet (*2)
•DC000-DFFFF : Reserved for USB BIOS (*3)
•E0000-FFFFF : Reserved for System BIOS
Notes:
•(*2) This area becomes free by disabling the Internal Network Option ROM option under Config and Network in the BIOS Setup Utility. But, if disabled, both Wake-on-LAN and PXE boot functions do not work.
•(*3) This area becomes free by disabling the USB BIOS Support option under Config and USB in the BIOS Setup Utility. Even if disabled, the USB devices work under the Windows environment.
How can I achieve this on the R31?