Other Help Topics :: Boot from microsystems backpack cdrom?

I'm trying to run (and hopefully install) dsl on an old thinkpad 560, using a microsystems backpack parallel port cdrom. Is there a boot floppy image out there that will recognize it? Or if not, what can I do to get this thing running?

Thank you,
Becky

http://damnsmalllinux.org/wiki/index.php/Boot_Floppies

You don't need a backpack boot floppy.

Just do a "poormans install" using your old OS or worst case with a DOS boot floppy (and backpack DOS driver).

Then use the regular DSL boot floppy disk to start up DSL.

I have used a backpack from within Linux, but I have never tried to use it to boot up the system.

original here.