From: Esmail Bonakdarian (esmail_at_uiowa.edu)
Date: Thu Feb 01 2001 - 10:29:43 EST
Hi David!
> How timely - I have a copy of W8SE on order, will likely be doing exactly the
> same thing when I get the time (still trying to tame the new combo card),
> likely next week.
too bad you didn't do this last week :-)
> Esmail, I managed to get my 8-20X IBM running off a DOS floppy for
> my initial W95 install (as you know, the hard part is getting the
> 560X's cardbus up and running) , however we cleaned house recently
> so it will take a bit of poking around to find the disk. I will
> look tomorrow if you like, and send you the appropriate files if I
> find it. (Or, you could come out to Hawaii and we could work on
> this together:-)
There's nothing I'd rather do than drop by, esp given the predicted
windchills of -15F to -35F by this afternoon (temps have started to
fall already and are predicted to do so throughout the day in Iowa),
but I guess I'll just have to hope you find some info to e-mail me :-)
> BTW, I'm thinking of controlling the install with 98LITE, to keep
> the installed OS lean and lively (see http://www.98lite.net , note
> the 'net' instead of 'com') - anyone have any experience with this
> on Thinkpads? Rumpor has it that it misbehaves with some hardware
> devices.
I'm not familiar with 98lite, but I guess I'll check out the site.
I think it's surprising that IBM wouldn't have a boot disk for the
TP560 series of machines with the external CDROM (it's even their own
model!) supported. Oh well, if the past is any indication, someone
here will come through.
Thanks for the help
Esmail
-- Esmail Bonakdarian - esmail_at_uiowa.edu - http://www.cs.uiowa.edu/~bonak
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