From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_icanect.net)
Date: Fri Nov 19 1999 - 15:25:20 EST
James...
your wit is excellent.. :-)
one thing more, win98 has a nice emergency startup diskette that puts a nice generic CD
driver in place..
boots to DOS and you get the CD..
no problem.. :-)
"James H. E. Maugham" wrote:
> Bill,
>
> On 18 Nov 99, at 23:40, Bill Morrow wrote:
>
> > the thing all should know is that these diskette images are available on
> > the IBM web site..
>
> Yes, but I had gotten the "new" file from there and that was the one I was
> having difficulty with, albeit due to operator error (e.g. using the wrong CD).
>
> > also, usually, there is a diskette image on the CD.
>
> But in the typical IBM "Catch 22", without a working boot disk, the CD isn't
> recognized so you can't access the CD to get the diskette image to get the
> CD recognized, etc. And there isn't a disk image on my 760XL recovery CD,
> just the 3 large compressed image files. Which was the eventual giveaway
> when I went looking for the diskette image on the CD on my desktop.
>
> Put CD in, open Explorer, look for diskette image....... hmmmmmmmm......
> not there! Check Explorer settings to show details and all files..... yep, they're
> set. Take CD out and stare at it as though I'll be able to "see" the boot
> diskette. Put it back in.........., search some more......., take CD out and look at
> it again......... "Product Recovery CD ROM", yeah that's right........, "IBM
> Thinkpad 760XL", yeah....... WAIT A MINUTE!!!!
>
> Doh!!!
>
> James
-- Happy trails...** Bill Morrow ** :-) WEB page http://thinkpads.com e-mail: bill_at_thinkpads.com, penzance_at_icanect.net
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