Re: PC advice (Not really HA!)

["Christopher Williams" <ccwilliams@xxxxxxx>]

--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, "Graham Howe" <graham@s...> wrote:
> Connect the two machines, copy the contents of the win98 directory
on the
> windows CD to the hard disk on the old machine, then run the
installation
> from the hard disk.
>
> Graham

Once I have figured out how to copy the data from one to the other I
will try this.

Many thanks,

Chris
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Christopher Williams [mailto:ccwilliams@xxxxxxx...]
> Sent: 21 November 2000 13:13
> To: ukha_d@xxxxxxx
> Subject: [ukha_d] PC advice (Not really HA!)
>
>
> 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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