From: Don (dvmak_at_ibm.net)
Date: Tue Feb 02 1999 - 14:27:02 EST
You should have enough space already on the partition. The initial install
on my 770ED
takes no more than 500 megs of space.
There have been problems with the recovery CD's giving an error message
saying that there was
a problem deompressing files.
I found that at that point most files have been transferred albeit a few of
the disk images from the diskette
factory which can be found on the customization CD anyway.
The workaround for me has been (after you receive the error message) is to
boot with a Windows diskette and
tranfer the system by entering "sys C:" command at the prompt.
Then restart the system and windows will complete the installation.
Don
-----Original Message-----
From: Albert C. Lee <alee_at_cavecreations.com>
To: thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
Date: Tuesday, February 02, 1999 1:54 PM
Subject: My Recovery CD experience
>Thanks to everyone who chipped in some advice about the Recovery CD.
>
>Well, everything went ok... until I found out that 500 mb doesn't
>cover the space needed to decompress all the files. 700 mb barely
>does it. So now I'm doing a recovery for the 3rd time... this time
>with 850 mb of space.
>
>A very important command to remember is the RESETC command. Keep that
>in the back of your head... should you ever abort the recovery CD (at
>ANY time), you need to run the RESETC command on the boot floppy.
>
>So far, on my Thinkpad 600E (300mhz), a restore seems to take about 25
>minutes. Don't know where IBM gets this 2 hour figure from... but
>it's not so bad. I even venture to say that when you get a new
>system, go ahead and try out the recovery CD right away. It's good
>practice if you ever need it.
>
>We'll see how 98 does compared to NT.
>
>Whoops... the recovery just aborted saying there was a problem
>decompressing. ????? Oh well... gonna feed it some more space.
>
>-Al
>
>
>
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