Can you boot off a USB 2.0 optical drive?

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devilsrejection · #1 Post by **devilsrejection** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:04 am

I ask because I always do fresh install.

That and it's cheaper than the ultrabase.

madana · #2 Post by **madana** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 7:44 am

So I assume that you can boot off the Ultrabase?

Pardom me for the question, but I was just about to ask it on a fresh thread.

bigtiger · #3 Post by **bigtiger** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 9:19 am

I would say so.

I have X40 and X24. They can all boot of a USB dvd drive. I cannot imagine IBM would disable this feature.

smvp6459 · #4 Post by **smvp6459** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:01 pm

devilsrejection wrote:I ask because I always do fresh install.

That and it's cheaper than the ultrabase.

Yes. I have an external USB 2 optical drive and I booted off of it to install Vista and run Knoppix.

The machine can also boot off a floppy, USB flash drive, network, and probably a few other drives as well. Probably can't boot off the SD card reader and I don't think it can boot off the PCMCIA reader.

devilsrejection · #5 Post by **devilsrejection** » Mon Jul 24, 2006 12:58 pm

Thanks everyone

Can you boot off a USB 2.0 optical drive?

Can you boot off a USB 2.0 optical drive?

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