On Thu, 20 Jul 2000, Raymond Blum wrote:
> Hi
> I have a Thinkpad 701C, the butterfly, with 24 MB of RAM and a 500 MB
> HD. I want to get Windoze 95 off of this machine and Linux onto it ASAP.
> I think that there must be a way to do it but I am stumped and hope that
> someone here can suggest a strategy.
>
> The machine has no floppy. I can (in Windoze) get a CD-ROM and a ZIP
> drive mounted via an Adaptec SlimSCSI PCMCIA card. (I had to download
> the drivers via the 14.4 modem)
>
> I do have a Linksys Ethernet PCMCIA card which I could download the
> drivers for, as I did for the SCSI card.
>
> I can not run loadlin from windoze, but if I bring the machine up in
> DOS mode, I can not get to the SCSI peripherals (and the CD)
>
> So... how would YOU run the Linux install, without locating and buying
> a floppy for this machine on eBay?
>
> TIA
> ---Raymond
>
Two ideas - get a copy of the install kernel that supports your SCSI card
- that way you can load the kernel from DOS with loadlin, and the kernel
will access the SCSI CD-ROM.
The other way is the Windows version of Loadlin. I sent you a copy
directly. I forget where I got it. I don't know if it will work, but you
can try it.
Mikkel
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