Date: Mon, 17 Mar 2003 08:09:26 +0000 From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: Re: [LIB] Installing XP on L100
From: "David Gillis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
How did you get XP installed on your L100? I've just bidded on a 40GB Hitachi hard drive. Your enthusiasm has pushed me to make the plunge to upgrade to XP.
I was thinking I would copy the installation directory onto the new formated drive since I have the DOS drivers for my Addonics pc card cd->rom drive. (I did this when installing Win98SE.) But according to the >archives XPs "setup.exe" is not recognized in DOS. Did you install >Win98SE then XP? BTW, I have the full version of XP not the upgrade.
I 1st tried putting the installation files on a D: partition, booting with a W98 boot FDD with smardrv.exe, which I ran from the A: prompt. Then switched to D:, and D:\I386, and ran n
But I found the process seemed way too slow, though my next try was pretty long itself. I reinstalled W98 (easier if you have a ghost image file), and then installed XP over W98 from the CD-ROM drive.
If I were to do it again, I'd pull the L100 HDD, put it into a desktop via and adpater on an IDE cable, and boot the system with the XP installation CD in the drive. If you don't have a bootable CD-ROM drive (I think most new ones are prabably bootable), the going via the 1st process above may be the best bet using a desktop with more CPU power.
Have fun! (And expect the usual... 8-0)
Matt
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