On 01-Apr-01 computer computer wrote:
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> hi
>
> i have laptop thinkpad. however, i have to replace the floppy drive with
> the dvd drive and vice versa everytime i want use the one or the other.
> Now, i am trying to install win98 on my empty hard drive. whenver,i insert
> the startup disk in the floppy, i got a message, failure to find cd.
> i do not know how i install win98 on computer with one slot for both
> the floppy and the dvd rom. any help.
does you laptop bios support hot-swap ? I used to have a texas instruments
extensa, and it did NOT support hot swap. in other words, I could boot up
w/ cdrom, or boot up w/ floppy, but generally speaking I could not swap once
I had booted. (I think there was some exceptions where I could boot w/ one, and
swap to the other, but generally it was not so good about this).
You might be having the same problem. I do not have experiance w/ the thinkpad.
My latest laptop (acer 725) supports floppy & dvd/cdrom simultaneously, so it is
no longer an issue for me. (yeah, I know, that's not a solution for you...)
rgds,
-Greg
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