Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 18:42:31 +1200
From: Fran <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] W98 install CD

On Tue, 01 Apr 2003 15:23, Digby Tarvin wrote:
> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2003 04:16:14 +0100 (GMT/BST)
> From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: W98 install CD
>
> All,
>
> I bought my 100CT a long time ago, when it was being supplied with
> W95 on a stack of floppies.
>
> I have now obtained an 'official' Toshiba W98 install CD which I would
> like to use to put a totally standard libretto OS on the first 2GB of
> a 40GB hard disk (leaving the rest for a real OS).
>
> Problem is my documentation only tells me how to install from floppy, so
> I am not sure what Toshiba intended people do with the CD.
>
> Can anyone who has the manuals from a machine that came with the W98
> CD mediase tell me what it says about OS re-install?
>
> Regardless of what it says, I am guessing that the easiest approach
> is going to be to boot off a floppy to do the partitioning, and them
> move the drive into a desktop machine to copy the cabs from the CD
> onto the hard disk. Or can I squeeze the necessary boot files onto
> a floppy to format the partition and copy the CD contents via a
> PCMCIA drive (which presumably would be easier to get going from
> a floppy boot than a PCMCIA SCSI card + CD-ROM drive)?
>
> There might also be some useful clues in the instructions about the
> procedure and sequence for adding in the Libretto specific drivers.
>
> Regards,
> DigbyT

I had to do this with my brand new CT110.
I ended up putting the harddrive in another laptop and booting from the 
cdrom in that one...

Fran

:):):)




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