or just take the drive out of the laptop and install with another pc. I have a Toshiba Portege M200 tablet that doesn't have a CD and won't recognize most usb cd/dvd drives for booting. I just popped the drive out and plugged my hard dive into my desktop and installed. Just be careful you don't install on your desktop's drive, or accidently install the bootloader to the wrong drive. it's easiest to just unplug all your desktop drives if your worried.<br>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Sep 10, 2009 at 4:52 PM, Todd Walton <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tdwalton@gmail.com">tdwalton@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
<div class="im">On Wed, Sep 9, 2009 at 5:16 PM, Ralph Kessel <<a href="mailto:ralphkessel75@yahoo.com">ralphkessel75@yahoo.com</a>> wrote:<br>
><br>
</div><div><div></div><div class="h5">> I've been playing with my new notebook and I'm trying to update to a newer version<br>
> of Ubuntu. Unfortunately, since IBM Thinkpad X21 doesn't have a native cd, I used<br>
> my ucb CD reader. The system doesn't recognize the CD as bootable and hangs<br>
> up when I attempt to change boot parameters. Any suggestions would be<br>
> appreciated. I like this machine very much and this not a complaint. Just a<br>
> request for assistance. Thanks,<br>
<br>
</div></div>(First, just a note: Is it IBM or Lenovo?)<br>
<br>
Have you seen this page?:<br>
<a href="http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_on_a_ThinkPad_X21" target="_blank">http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Installing_Ubuntu_on_a_ThinkPad_X21</a><br>
<br>
It says there's a problem with the sequence of loading the usb_storage<br>
driver, and that an alternate CD may work. There's more information<br>
on the page.<br>
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Todd<br>
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