Did a experiment today with my other Amrel laptop with the hardrive pulled and just a cdrom drive installed. Popped in a Linux Sidux Live Cd with a ethernet cable hooked up to USB and booted up. Bios boots and says no ide hardrive detected and press F1 to continue. I should state that I had set the boot order in bios as cdrom is 1st. Anyway Linux starts booting up, and brings up the GUI. Thats the Windows screen for Sidux. I hit the connect button and I am then on the internet. I am posting this thread right now on a laptop with no hardrive, running a operating system off a cd that has enough drivers to run the LCD,connect to the modem, enable the keyboard and work the speakers, and connect to the internet. All without a hardrive. Learn something new everyday. I just think this is neato as heck. Tried this out with my Puppy cd, Damn Small Linux cd, NimbleX cd, all of them booted up and worked. I am so tickled pink that I just had to share. This laptop only has 128mb of ram and applications and internet worked reasonably fast off just the Live cds. Talk about bringing old broke equipment back to life, this was slick.
