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At 10:02 AM 6/17/97 +0500, Victor Kress wrote:
>I am in the process of upgrading all my computers to warp 4, and I am
>now ready to tackle the tp750. The geezers on this list will remember
>that the 750 came from a time that laptops didn't have internal cdroms.
>
>On my 750 I have a pcmcia scsi cdrom, and network card. I would
>prefer to do a cdrom install. It is clearly possible to create boot install
>floppies which will get the thingpad up to the cdrom reading stages.
>Has anybody on the list done this? I would REALLY appreciate the
>benefit of your experience.
>
Victor,
I've done this on my TP755C. First I have an IBM SCSI Credit Card adapter;
it is a PCMCIA (aka PC Card) SCSI adapter.
I had a pre-existing Warp version on my TP from a diskette install (BTW, I
think you can create the 20-30 something diskettes off the CD, and use
diskettes to install Warp), so I installed the OS2 software for the SCSI
card onto my system, which enabled me to use the SCSI CDRom from Warp.
Then, with some trial and error, I figured out what drivers were installed
to make the CDRom work. Finally, I used these new drivers, basedev's, etc,
to update the Warp 4 boot floppies; I also had to make some changes to the
config.sys on the boot floppies.
After lots of fiddling, cursing, and rebooting, I finally got Warp 4 to
install directly from the CD with my modified boot floppies. I think I had
to find some drivers which would _not_ be used, in order to delete enough
space off the boot floppies to make room for the extra drivers for the
PCMCIA SCSI.
The main problem I had was that one of the drivers for the SCSI adapter
replaced a driver of the same name in the standard Warp install.
Good luck.
Brooks
Brooks McNeely
Lockheed Martin Energy Systems, Inc.
E-mail:
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