{"id":2117,"date":"2004-05-20T02:52:21","date_gmt":"2004-05-20T02:52:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soulhuntre.com\/items\/date\/2004\/05\/20\/thinkpad-xp\/"},"modified":"2004-05-20T02:52:21","modified_gmt":"2004-05-20T02:52:21","slug":"thinkpad-xp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/2004\/05\/20\/thinkpad-xp\/","title":{"rendered":"Thinkpad, XP!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Feel my pain. Below is the story&#8230; and links to the tools and info that led to victory!<\/p>\n<p>Tatsumi has a great family, and her Dad gave me a laptop they weren&#8217;t using, an old IBM Thinkpad. Good deal, except it had Win98 on it. Ok, I think, I&#8217;ll put XP on it&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>So I run the compatibility check, and it all looks good!<\/li>\n<li>Reboot the system with the WinXP disc in and I get&#8230; Win98<\/li>\n<li>Find out that the external CD drive hooked up to the PCMCIA IDE card is not bootable.<\/li>\n<li>Whip out my hand DOS boot disk of wonder and fire that puppy up! No go. The CD is sufficiantly whacky that that won&#8217;t work.<\/li>\n<li>Download and try almost every conceivable flobby boot disk on the net (links below)<\/li>\n<li>Nope.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Now I am frustrated. Fine, I can&#8217;t boot from the CD-ROM. I&#8217;ll do something else&#8230; hey, I&#8217;ll install from the network! <\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Connect to a Windows 2K3 based server from DOS mode? Especially if it has a too long to be backwards compatible domain name?<\/li>\n<li>No, no I won&#8217;t.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>So finally I did the sensible thing, and built <a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323166\">all <b><i>six<\/i><\/b> of the floppies<\/a> it takes to do a floppy based Windows XP install. Success!<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, here are the links to the cool boot floppy and CD-ROM tools:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.911cd.net\/911cd\/\">The 911 Rescue CD &#8211; The Admin Swiss Army Knife<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.nu2.nu\/bootdisk\/\">Bart&#8217;s Boot disks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/members.iinet.net.au\/~bdriver\/bootdisk\/index.htm\">Universal TCP-IP Network Bootdisk for M$ Networks<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/support.microsoft.com\/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;323166\">323166 &#8211; HOW TO- Download Windows updates and drivers from the Windows Update Catalog<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Feel my pain. Below is the story&#8230; and links to the tools and info that led to victory! Tatsumi has a great family, and her Dad gave me a laptop they weren&#8217;t using, an old IBM Thinkpad. Good deal, except it had Win98 on it. Ok, I think, I&#8217;ll put XP on it&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":53196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[278],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2117"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2117\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/53196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2117"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2117"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/legacyiamsenseiken.local\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2117"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}