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btw I put an image on Imgur.com and tried to link to it in this thread but Imgur has been down for over a day. I wonder if they are shutting down?

I created an Imgur account and uploaded the image there and then put the link here in a comment but its not showing up

im trying to breath life into a really old ibm Thinkpad pentium 2. I think it runs windows NT or Windows 98 it turns on and asks me to enter the year and date then it gets stuck on next screen which shows a large window with an blinking image "0 > 1". but it won't respond to any keystrokes...

thank for the quick reply . I looked at that site and it seems my bios version 1.6 is 'good enough' in that the notes for the newer versions dont seem to add an option to boot from the usb drive. the whole reason im doing all this is because I want to switch my machine over to mint linux

I just used the app that was on the toshiba laptop. it is SONIC RECORD NOW. I selected the burn option to 'not allow more files to be added later' but I dont recall any option for 'making a bootable image' in that app.

i have a toshiba satellite M45-S265 circa 2005 i want to make sure i have the latest bios. setup shows ACPI Bios ver= 1.6 how do i confirm that and where is a reliable location to get the latest available bios? my current bios doesnt show usb as a bootable option... so i assume i have to put...

M45-S265 is the specific model. I really want to get started with linux. Is mint a good choice for this old relic ?

Hi. It is a satelite m-45 . Its probably circa 2005. I dont see USB as an option in boot order. I burned the dvd with this same laptop with the mint iso. I did download the iso to my mac first and then moved the iso file to tosh using a flash drive...but I think that sould be ok ?

i downloaded Linux Mint 32 bit iso file . i burned it on a dvd. I have a 2005 era Laptop. i was able to change boot order to cdrom first. but i get error msg "non bootable' media in cdrom drive. I dont think this old machine can boot from usb or I would try that too. help please. thanks!