From: Bill Morrow (penzance_at_gate.net)
Date: Fri Feb 15 2002 - 01:53:35 EST
answers below..
well, COMMENTS below.. :-)
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Cordially, :-)
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----- Original Message -----
From: <rockwell_at_pa.msu.edu>
To: "thinkpad" <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>; <forrest_at_truffula.net>
Sent: Thursday, February 14, 2002 11:42 PM
Subject: Re: X20 problems
> Forrest,
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> I have a couple week old x21 and had essentially the same issues you
faced -
> thoughI new from the start that I wouldn't be runnig Windows native on
> the thing.
> I haven't been able to get it to boot from Flash - either in the special
> flash slot or in a PCMCIA slot with adapter. This is really
> disappointing, I expect Thinkpads to be better thought out than that.
>
> The best way to proceed is to put the drive in another machine. I
> bought a little adapter for covnerting the laptop harddrive connector to
> a fullsize IDE and power connectors. The adapter was about $10. You
> should be able to find them using google.
>
> You should be able to install Linux onto the drive using a desktop
> machine - I don't know about Windows, I think at least W2K and W2K+2 (or
> whatever) are picky about being installed on the hardware that they will
> run on.
not so at all..
just copy the entire I386 directory to the HDD, then boot with smartdrv.exe
and go to the I386 and execute winnt.exe..
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> I'm running VMware on my x21 inorder to support W2K, this works quite
> well adn makes it a lot easier to manage Windows and Office - I simply
> installed them inside VMWare on a desktop machine and transfered the
> virtual disk over.
>
> The good news is once it is going, the x series is a nice laptop.
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> -Tom
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