Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 18:29:54 -0500
From: "Jim Hanak" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto #499
Rick,
Whoops! I spoke too soon!
I'm coming across an apparently common problem. When it needs
"NT5INF.CAT on Service Pack 2 CD", it won't read from the regular install
CD, even though the file is there. I have tried extracting the file to a
floppy, with no change in the results. MS knowledge base article KB228852
basically says "replace the unit with one that is listed on the Windows 2000
Hardware Compatibility List". And of course neither my EXP Computer Inc.
CD-Traveler+ nor my NEC OP-260-72501 are listed. Damn!
Any ideas?
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Hanak [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Thursday, August 11, 2005 5:26 PM
To: 'Libretto'
Subject: Re: [LIB] How to install to Lib 110ct with a bare HD?
Wow!! Thanks, Rick!
I had completely forgot about the boot disk method. I guess we've been
spoiled by CD's and DVD's. I guess if I had remembered it, I would be
showing my age(My first PC was a TI 99/4a --- when they were new!).
Anyway, it's about 70% of the way through the install and the CD-ROM is
humming away nicely.
Thanks,
Jim !
>Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 12:41:59 -0400
>From: Rick Mansfield <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: [LIB] How to install to Lib 110ct with a bare HD?
>
>I installed a completely fresh copy of Win2k with NTFS pretty easily.
>All I did was use a different PC to generate the floppy disks for the
>Win2k installer (the utility was in the /boot disk directory on the
>CD). I plugged in the CD drive and the floppy drive simultaneously,
>booted from the floppies, and Win2k setup understood the CD drive by
>itself. As long as your PCMCIA CD drive's drivers are either built-in
>to Win2k (as mine are) or have a Win2k setup driver, it should be easy.
>
>I *believe* that the drive I used was the one that was shipped with the
>110ct as the CD drive option.
