Portege 3480: is it impossible to boot from a key-USB-cd?

I would like to install win 2000 on my portege 3480. However, I have a lot of difficulty getting to boot from external cd readers. I tried with a Cd Player and a LiteOn DVD drive iomega. None of them works. The two drives are connected via the USB port. I read somewhere that we can start using pcmcia on the 3480 cd players - can that really be true?

Hope someone can help out me.

Thank you

Steffen - Denmark

Yes, it's true
Generally it is not possible to boot from the external USB CD/DVD drive.
You need a compatible PCMCIA reader and supported.

Please check other messages of the forum in this category:
http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=18540
http://forums.computers.Toshiba-Europe.com/forums/thread.jspa?threadID=18417

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