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Booting from a PCMCIA cd rom on an old laptop.

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VigilanteCS

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Hi, I just bought a Dell Latitude CS (400 MHz p2) off of ebay, and it has no bays for an internal cd rom drive. I was wondering if you can boot from a PCMCIA cd rom drive becuase the dell "external media bay" drives are expensive as crap (you CAN boot from those). Would it be possible just to buy a PCMCIA cd rom and boot from that?
 
It totaly depends on the unit's bios, but in almost all cases you can boot off an external drive feed from the PCMCIA slots.
 
Is there any way I can find out? I don't have an AC adapter yet. If I can set first boot device to PCMCIA, it would work?
 
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