On Saturday 16 August 2003 01:17 pm, Paul wrote: > On Sat, 2003-08-16 at 16:50, Kaj Haulrich wrote: > > I happen to own an old Thinkpad 380 with OS/2 on it, but > > *Derive* won't run under OS/2's emulation of Win3.1 either. > > Possibly I can get a copy of Win98, but I have no clue > > whatsoever about installing it - the Thinkpad can't boot off > > a CD , so I guess it's a dead end too ? > > You might know someone who has W98 running. Create a > bootdiskette there, get the CDROM-driver for the Thinkpad from > somewhere on the diskette, don't forget mscdex, format, > himem.sys, fdisk and sys.com. Stick the cdromdriver in > /config.sys. That should get you going, I think. Paul > (who had a lot to do with M$ in the older days... Damn, I am > getting OLD!)
Well, thanks Paul. I'll try this road even if I know next to nothing about Windows. Never thought I needed it. Kaj Haulrich. -- Registered Linux user # 214073 at http://counter.li.org Powered by Linux - Mandrake 9.1 kernel 2.4.21-0.25mdk Sent to you from a 100 % Micro$oft-free computer.
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