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Many older ThinkPads came with only a floppy drive and cannot boot from any CD drive at all.

Since in most cases the installation base packages come on CD, you'll need a second computer, equipped with a CD-ROM drive, for all of those solutions. This page should tell you about the possible solutions. So the question arises how to get your system of choice onto that precious piece of hardware. See our List of supported boot devices for various ThinkPads. Also, with some external CD-ROMs the problem might arise that the ThinkPad is not able to boot from them. Even though there are options to buy a solution like the UltraBase, a full dock or simply an external CD-ROM drive 1, this is not the cheapest option and might not always be necessary. the whole X series) come without a CD-ROM drive by default.