Re: [Thinkpad] Installing win2k on a 240x

Is it PCMCIA (16-bit) or CardBus (32-bit)? If it's CardBus, then it's a pci
extension with an ide controller. Find the I/O address of the ide controller
and type it into Smart Boot Manager, and it should be able to boot the
CardBus Cd. If it's PCMCIA, then it's basically native ide, and should act
accordingly. I think you can find the I/O base address of the pcmcia
controller and type that into Smart Boot Manager, and it'll boot the CD. To
enter the I/O base address, there's an option somewhere in the menu for
advanced CDROM options.

My best guess.

On 1/15/07, David Ross <ross@math.hawaii.edu> wrote:
>
> > When I installed W98SE on a new hard drive in a 240, just copying over
> > the CAB directory files from the installation CD was sufficient, but I
> > haven't tried installing W2K yet.
>
> What he needs is the entire \i386 directory copied over, preferably to a
> *second* partition on the disk (to avoid unexpected overwrites); this
> partition should be 2-3 times the size of this directory. Then run the
> command winnt from this directory to install.
>
> BTW, getting a pcmcia CD drive to work in DOS on these machines is
> pretty easy, as long as Lenovo still makes the 240x pcmcia drivers
> available for download. If Fabiano has a floppy drive and a pcmcia CD
> then this is really the most natural way to install the OS. (I think
> some of the open-source DOSes out there might have pcmcia support
> built-in nowadays, even easier than installing the IBM drivers.) There
> are also 1-floppy Linux installs with pcmcia support that will make it
> easy to copy the W2K installation files over from a CD, without having
> to take the hd out of the machine and mount in a desktop.
>
> David
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