From: Bill Morrow - http://thinkpads.com (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Sat Sep 19 1998 - 03:55:41 EDT
The recovery CD IBM offers (with machines usually) will restore the
complete preload..
to make a CD with all the various driver updates is a good idea, which
IBM used, for upgrading to win98.. the cost was $10..
the problem is that the updates change too often.. thus the d/l
ability.. aka an FTP site..
:-)
what you can do is make a CD of you current stable OS and then restore
it..
there are considerations, but it can be done by anyone with the hardware
and a bit of knowledge and patience..
Mike Ford wrote:
>
> >> This reminds me: Is it practical to make a CD-R that consists of all the
> >> various IBM device driver install disks (hmm, is that what the Recovery CD
> >> is?) that are available on their webpage?
> >>
> >> Also, how would one make a bootable CD-R?
> >
> >I've made a bootable cdrom the software we have
> >(can't remember the name) lets you do just that.
> >I can find it if you want.
>
> I have a Sony 926S CDR, and a Adaptec 358 EPP/SCSI, that I would love to
> use to make a recovery CD for our 365XD. I would be happy just figuring out
> how to make a backup this way.
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