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Re: [Sheflug] laptop problem
Thanks James,
Actually, this is what I just did yesterday and it worked - well kind of...
I couldn't get hold of a commercial translation cable or a laptop-sized ATA
socket, so I made one up using a damaged laptop hard drive adaptor out of
another machine - a real pig soldering to pins less than 1mm long!! Anyway,
after wasting a lot of time trying to get the PC to see the drive as I'd
plugged the damn thing in backwards, I tried booting up from the hard drive
and it said the drive wasn't bootable (no suitable operating system. This
was a bit confusing since I had formatted the drive on the laptop, done the
old 'sys c:' thing and it would then boot up on there). So, I booted it from
the same floppy I'd used in the Laptop and 'sys c:'d' it again and now it
worked. Then I installed windows and all the other progs I really needed and
put the thing back in the laptop - wouldn't boot again!! So again I booted
the laptop from the same boot floppy - sys c:'d it and now it works OK. Why
the blooming thing got upset about booting in the different machines and yet
worked when the system file was reinstalled from the same floppy disk I
don't know - probably just another of the mysteries of computing which we
will never understand.....
Best wishes,
Ian
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Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Mears" <xxxxx [at] mearsonline.co.uk>
To: <shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk>
Sent: Sunday, April 14, 2002 9:02 AM
Subject: RE: [Sheflug] laptop problem
Ian
OK this is not a linux based answer (if you are offended please look
away now)
Why don't you take the Hard disk out of the laptop and connect it to
your desktop machine as the primary hard disk. Then use the win98 boot
disk to copy the whole win cd to the laptop hard disk (in a separate
partition, might also work if win cd is in a folder on C: just don't
call the folder windows..ha).
Put the laptop back together boot from win98 floppy and then install
win98 from the hard disk. Don't forget when it asks you where you want
win to be installed, make sure it says C:\windows and not D: or what
ever the install partition is called.
HTH
James
-----Original Message-----
From: xxxxx [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
[mailto:shef-lug-admin [at] list.sheflug.org.uk] On Behalf Of Ian W. Wright
Sent: 09 April 2002 09:22
To: shef-lug [at] list.sheflug.org.uk
Subject: [Sheflug] laptop problem
Hi,
I have a laptop with a duff CD Rom drive and a new hard drive (8.4Gb
bought off Ebay for £5.35!!) which I want to install win98 on (I know
but I have a couple of win-specific programs I want to use on it while
I'm away on holiday). Having tried various other ways unsucessfully, I
am now wondering if I could use linux to do the necessary. What I am
thinking of is to boot the laptop from one of the small linux-type
versions and get it connected to the network (the laptop has a PCMCIA
ethernet card), then mount the CD drive on one of the other computers
and copy the whole contents of the windoze CD across onto the new hard
drive - reboot the laptop from a win 9.x floppy and do the setup from
there. However, my knowledge of linux falls short on the following
points and the HOWTOs I have read don't seem to have enlightened me:- 1.
what would I need to do to get the PCMCIA lan working from the small
linux boot? 2. what command would I need to use to mount the CD on
192.168.0.x machine onto the laptop at 192.168.1.y and copy all the
files across? 3. would it matter whether the machine the CD is on
(192.168.0.x) is running linux or windoze - both are available on the
network but would linux scramble the win-type .cab files in copying
across or, if it might, could I use Samba with a small linux boot on the
laptop? Any help - preferably in 'Janet and John' language would be very
gratefully recieved. Thanks,
Best wishes,
Ian
--
Ian W. Wright
Sheffield, UK
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