Mine is Toshiba Portege A100, running Win XP sp3 , Intel (m) centrino, 1.4 GHz, 750 mb ram, 120 gb hdd.
It has micro SD card reader, CD drive, USB ports
but boot can be done through CD, fdd,and hdd. And not from USB.
Because of old machine I got tips from Brickwizard and Kc1di to install MX...