Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 20:05:17 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Help installing OS on 100CT
>Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2002 08:26:59 -0500 >From: "Markus Benne" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Help installing OS on 100CT > >I bought a used 100CT without an OS on it. > >I'm having a lot of "issues" getting win 95 loaded up on it. I have 95 >floppies from my Lib70CT, but using that OS install, I can't get access to >the CDROM for the real install. What do you mean by "the real install"? Am I missing something here? Are you saying that by not having your CD-ROM drive attached during the Win95 installation, it won't be configured by the Windows install. Or is there something else that you won't be getting by installing from floppies? The method Raymond described may be easier if you have one of those 2.5" to 3.5" HDD adapters. Without that, here's what I'd do: 1. Boot the Lib from a bootable FDD with SYS.COM, HIMEM.SYS and EMM386.EXE on it. If you need to partition and format the HDD, incude FORMAT.COM and FDISK.EXE. Tell us if you need help with the latter. 2. I'm not sure why sometimes I get away without this, but you may need to create a CONFIG.TSH file on the FD with these two lines for upper memory access during installation: DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS DEVICE=EMM386.EXE NOEMS 3. Run "SYS C:" from your A:> prompt to copy system files to C:\, and then "COPY CONFIG.TSH C:" TO copy CONFIG.TSH to C: 4. Change to your C: drive by typing "C:" and hitting Enter. 5. Run "RENAME CONFIG.TSH CONFIG.SYS", and then do a "MD WIN95" to create a C:\win95 directory on your HDD. 6. Copy the contents of all the W95 floppies to that directory. 7. Make a C:\DRIVERS directory and copy the drivers for your CD-ROM and Toshiba Libretto there 8. Remove the FDD, insert the CD-ROM card, reboot and then run setup.exe from C:\win95. 9. When Windows finally boots to the desktop and asks for drivers, navigate to the files you put in C:\DRIVERS. Did I forget anything folks? The advantage of having the Win95 installation files on the HDD is that you won't have to fumble with inserting FDs or a Win95 CD the next time you install a new piece of hardware. Also, I THINK that if you dump the contents of each W95 FD to the same C:\Win95 directory, you won't be asked for the next floppy each time, whereas if you created a new subdir for each, you would. Matt _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
