Re: PC advice (Not really HA!)

["Christopher Williams" <ccwilliams@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Stuart Grimshaw <stuart@s...> wrote:
> If you have them connected via a network, and you can get networking
> working under DOS, you could share the cd-rom on the lappy, hten
connect to
> it from the DOS machine with net use \\lappy\cd-share
>
> The floppies that came with your net card should have DOS drivers
one them,
> and doesn't DOS 6 come with built in net support?

I will look into this.  Thanks.
>
> On Tue, 21 Nov 2000 13:13:00 Christopher Williams wrote:
> > I know this is really the wrong e-group for this question, but I
have
> > great faith in the advice given on this list.
> >
> > I have an old 486/66 machine and I would like to put Windows98 on
> > it.  I know it may not have enough grunt, but I'd like to try it
> > anyway.
> >
> > Problem is it doesn't have a CD drive.
> >
> > Question:  Does anyone know of some software that can be loaded
from
> > floppy to enable the 486 to make use of the CD drive on my
laptop?
> > The two machines can be connected with serial, parallel or
10BaseT.
> > I have tried INTERLNK as supplied with DOS 6, but it doesn't like
the
> > newer filing system used by Win98.
> >
> > The other option I have is to connect a CD drive temporarily.  I
have
> > a Sony 24x ATAPI drive that I could borrow from my Acorn RiscPC,
but
> > I am not convinced it will work with the IDE interface on the
486,
> > and I don't want to risk damaging it.  As far as I am aware IDE
(as
> > opposed to EIDE) is not capable of addressing beyond 512Mb, and I
> > guess that as a CD can hold 650Mb, this is an issue.  Any ideas?
> >
> > Any help would be much appreciated.  I wouldn't blame you for
> > dissmissing this as non HA.
> >
> > Cheers,
> >
> > Chris Williams
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
>
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