From: Esmail Bonakdarian (esmail_at_uiowa.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 10:23:44 EST
Hi James,
> > The problem I am having is that I don't have a boo[t] disk that's
> > capable of giving me access to the external/PCMCIA CDROM. (This is the
> > IBM 20x CDROM drive).
>
> If you've lost or misplaced the installation floppy that came with your external
> drive, you can download a copy from here:
> http://www.pc.ibm.com/qtechinfo/BBOD-3N5J53.html
I downloaded and tried this disk, but the install fails because it
expects to find card services running on the TP.
What I have is a blank formatted C drive, and I'm trying to boot off a
floppy with access to the PCMCIA CD-ROM so that I can install W98SE,
so no other software is available/installed.
> I've got a generic BOOT floppy I made for loading an external Backpack drive on
> 755CX systems. I'd be happy to send you a copy, but you'd be much better off
> downloading the IBM floppy listed above. It's the original floppy for the
> 1969-010 and 1969-011 drives.
What was involved in doing this? Just making sure you had the right
drivers on the floppy with the appropriate config.sys/autoexec.bat?
I have looked on IBM's site a lot, I can't believe they don't have a
standard boot disk w/ CDROM support for the TP560 series. This has
been much more time consuming than it should be.
Any help will be appreciated.
Esmail
-- Esmail Bonakdarian - esmail_at_uiowa.edu - http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~bonak
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