From: Michael Geary (mg_at_mg.to)
Date: Wed Oct 28 1998 - 14:46:06 EST
Joe, it sounds like you've been doing this the hard way. You don't need to
get a working DOS configuration up and running on the hard drive before
running Win9x setup. It can be a lot easier if you don't bother with that.
Instead, all you really need is some way--any way--of copying the Win9x CD's
setup directory on the hard drive. You can do this with another OS in
another partition, copying the files from the CD or across a network, or you
can use a boot floppy with CD-ROM drivers.
For example, I typically use my old Trantor parallel-to-SCSI adapter with
its DOS boot floppy and a SCSI CD-ROM drive. That combination boots right up
on every machine I've needed it on. If I do have another OS already running,
then I'll just copy the files across the network, which is even easier.
Once the setup files are on the hard drive, you can just run Setup from
there. It doesn't matter if you made the hard drive bootable or not. BTW,
all you need is the setup directory itself, not the fairly large
subdirectories it may contain.
-Mike
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Joe Suttle [mailto:joesuttle_at_ibm.net]
> Sent: Monday, October 26, 1998 10:17 AM
> To: Bruce Komar
> Cc: Slip; Thinkpad Mailing list
> Subject: Re: Upgrade path's for the 701.
>
>
> Bruce Komar wrote:
> >
> > Could you tell me more about this? I have a TP701C that I have tried to
> > add add'l 16MB RAM (to 24MB) and upgrade to W95, but I can't seem to get
> > around W95 constant "page faults". Yes, I did upgrade with the
> latest BIOS
> > from the IBM web site.
> I got a 32M chip and replaced the 8 that I had added to my TP701C, so
> went from 16 to 40M ram. Also added a 3.1G drive, and went on an upgrade
> binge. Did reinstall OS/2 W4 and Boot Manager. Got W95 installed in a
> separate partition, and it does work with no problems. Had to make sure
> that the CD was working under DOS BEFORE installing W95, and it is still
> there for when I need W95 to run some software (diagnostic and
> programming type) for work.
>
> You may have to do an install of generic dos, with all the right drivers
> first, and then install 95 over that. Also, what I bought was W95
> upgrade, so had to stick in disk 1 of W3.1 so it would continue the
> installation.
> --
> Joe Suttle * Warp Certified System Expert
> joesuttle_at_ibm.net
> Hercules, California
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