Re: Upgrade path's for the 701.

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From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Thu Oct 29 1998 - 14:13:48 EST

I do a win95 load for the 701 and i have the original preload..

also, win95B and win98 have all the drivers needed for the 701..

best have at least 24megs of memory.. best is 40megs..

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Joe Suttle wrote:

> Bruce said:
> >Ohh, maybe this is a problem. I've already wipped clean the original
> >system. When I reinstall DOS, where do I get and how do I now I have >all
> >the "right" drivers before loading W95?
>
> You will have to find your TP utility disks, either from copies you have
> or from the web for all the drivers needed to be in a directory called
> 'Thinkpad'. After installing/reinstalling DOS, you will have to create
> that directory and put the utilities there. That way, you will have the
> sound driver in autoexec.bat and config.sys. Once those things are in
> those files, along with anyother drivers you have, you can generally
> start your W95 install from DOS.
>
> Any questions, feel free to email me directly, or check out the
> following sites:
> http://www3.pc.ibm.com/techinfo/2c4e.html
> http://www3.pc.ibm.com/techinfo/8ebe.html
> http://www.warpedthinkpad.simplenet.com/CDinst.html
>
> If you are using a PCMCIA CD-Rom, you will need the TP PC Card Services
> from that first site, so that they will be in config.sys and
> autoexec.bat, and then install the driver for the CD and go from there.
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