From: Teresa Selling (tselling_at_ibm.net)
Date: Wed Jan 13 1999 - 17:24:48 EST
A PCMCIA hard drive is another way to get the Win95 install files from
one machine to another if both have a PCMCIA slot.
Mark Bell wrote:
> At 09:29 PM 1/13/99 GMT, Michael D. Scheer wrote:
> >I have inherited a 755CX running 95 that has all kinds of crufty
> >software half-uninstalled. I would like to bring the machine to a
> >consistent state by reinstalling the OS.
> >
> >Two problems:
> >
> >1. No recovery floppies or CD. Neither do I see images for them on
> >the IBM web site.
> >
> >2. No CDROM drive. I would really prefer to install from CDROM
> >rather than floppies, if I can get to that point. What are my options
> >for installing a CDROM drive that would be useful for OS installation?
>
> If your current install is network able, network it to a desktop machine
> that has a CDROM. Copy over the Win95 dir, and install it from the 755cx's
> HD natively. If you have a parallel device, wipe the drive, make a bootdisk
> to enable the parallel device, copy over the Win95 dir and go from there.
> The main point is to get that Win95 directory on the HD. It is the quickest,
> easiest method. I use a Zip drive and a bullet drive primarily for this
> purpose.
>
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