notyouraveragetechie
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Posted: Aug. 20 2008,19:27 |
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Hmm, well. I have a Toshiba Satellite Pro 480CDT that was collecting dust. It ran Windows 95, until I found a Addonics PCMCIA CD-ROM. After downloading the drivers, I made a MSDOS boot floppy with drivers for the CD-ROM.
The README file included with the documentation for making the floppy gives instructions on how to copy the files for Windows 9x installs and Windows NT4. I tried NT4, but it doesn't like the FAT32 partition and DOS doesn't recognize NTFS partitions.
I can't do a HDD install cause, well, my only other laptop with a HDD bay large enough for the Toshiba's hard disk, recently had an unfortunate encounter with a cup of water, frying the I/O controller.
Net install is also impossible because I... only have a WiFi connection.
I might be able to do a floppy install, except it's almost impossible on a Windows machine, and my only Linux machine running at the moment is an IBM ThinkPad R40E (running Ubuntu 8.04) lacks a floppy disk.
The PCMCIA CD-ROM can see all the files on the DSL disk, but I need instructions on what files and directories to copy and how to install it afterwards.
Any thoughts?
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