[aix thinkpad] Installing WinNT 3.51 onto 820 without a floppy drive

[Rowan Hawkins]

It wasnt too difficult for me to find the external floppy drive for 
the power series.  It was the same one as for some of the intel series 
machines, TP350 I think.  I'll get the P/N # when I Im at home next.

Rowan Hawkins


----   On 2005-06-19 5:00pm -0500 Trevor Cordes descanted:
:On  9 Jun, Tero Kaarlela wrote:
:>    Is there a way of installing Winnt 3.51 or 4.0 from CD onto 820 
:> without a floppy drive? I can get to cd from Open firmware prompt. I 
:> have heard that file setupldr can  be ran from there somehow but I have 
:> no idea how.
:
:I believe you need to boot from the "ARCLOADER" floppy, the image of
:which is available on the IBM FTP sites linked from my web page.  I've
:never tried NT on TP but lots of people used to do it.
:
:What you'd do if you don't have a FD drive is anyone's guess.  It might
:not be possible.  Wait to see if anyone else here knows any tricks.
:
:Good luck!
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