Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:32:02
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: Help this fuul out
Off the top of my head -
(a) Easiest option - get a 2.5" - 3.5" IDE adaptor and temporarily install
the formatted drive in a desktop with a CDrom drive. *Do Not* try and do the
windows install there though...
(b) Zip drives are great - all the files you need will fit onto one and you
can run zip drives under dos. I've loaded windows directly from Zip a couple
of times - slow but it works.
(c) pkzip and friends - takes a lot of floppies though, and the unzip stage
needs the last disk so you can't shuffle...though I think you can copy the
zipped disks one at a time into a common directory (been a long time, can't
confirm that) so you can get away with just one floppy...
I'm sure you can do things e.g. with single floppy linux installs to make a
network, or dos network cards talking to shared drives...but you'd probably
take longer than just copying the files in teh first place.
For info (w95 is the only thing I use so I can't say for 98) you only need
the directory that has the .cab files in it (and the other files in the same
directory). So you don't need the whole CD.
Neil
>From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Help this fuul out
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 01:28:06 -0800
>
>Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 10:20:35 +0100 (CET)
>From: James <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: RE: Help this fuul out
>
>
>Is there an easy way to copy the cd onto a bare (formated) drive if
>you don't have a lib cdrom drive?
>
>James
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