Toshiba satalite pro 405cs : I need to boot off a PCMCIA C..

Archived from groups: comp.sys.laptops (More info?)

You will need to boot from a floppy or bootable CD-ROM that has drivers
for the PC Card cd-rom drive.


Andy Chao wrote:

> Hello
>
> Toshiba satalite pro 405cs : I need to boot off a PCMCIA CD-rom but the bios
> only has FDD and HDD. I have no software on the C drive now but I want to
> install Windows 2000 from the PCMCIA cd-rom.
>
> How can I do it ?
>
> Thank you.
>
> Andy
>
>

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I was under the impression that the 400 series supported bootable CD-ROM
drives. Do you have the latest BIOS?

A bootable floppy is a bootable floppy. The preferred choice is a
Windows 98SE bootable floppy. If you are going to use FDISK, get the
updated version released by MS in May of 2000.

To make a bootable floppy recognize a CD, you need MSCDEX and drivers
for the CD-ROM drive installed on the floppy. If the CD is PC Card, you
will either need a "point solution" driver or full "card and socket
services", PLUS the driver for the PC Card CD-ROM drive (the point
solution driver is MUCH simpler if you have one).

There is ***NO WAY*** that Windows 2000 will ever work on that machine,
it is FAR too old, too slow and incapable (it's only a Pentium 75 MHz, I
think, with a MAXIMUM of 40 megs of RAM, it's not even remotely close).

The best OS you can put on that machine is Windows 98SE. A better way
to do that might be with a parallel port zip drive instead of a CD-ROM
drive, if you don't have drivers for the CD-ROM. Copy the \Win98 folder
from the Win98 CD to a zip disk [you can do this on a desktop machine;
if it doesn't fit, you can leave off almost all of the sub-folders,
channels, tour, online services, etc.]. It's far easier to get parallel
port devices (esp. the zip drive) working than it is to get a PC Card
device working. Also, boot from a floppy and then use XCOPY to copy the
\Win98 folder from the Zip disk to the hard drive, then run the install
from the hard drive.



Andy Chao wrote:
> Hello
>
> Thanks, but I need more details: 1. the bios only has FDD and HDD as
> bootable 2.Which bootable FDD something like Windows 98.
> 3. Is there a command in dos that can read the PCMCIA Card? like MSCDEX.exe
> for the IDE CD-rom?
>
>
> Andy
>
> Barry Watzman" <WatzmanNOSPAM@neo.rr.com> wrote in message
> news:4158205E.1030904@neo.rr.com...
>
>>You will need to boot from a floppy or bootable CD-ROM that has drivers
>>for the PC Card cd-rom drive.
>>
>>
>>Andy Chao wrote:
>>
>>
>>>Hello
>>>
>>>Toshiba satalite pro 405cs : I need to boot off a PCMCIA CD-rom but the
>
> bios
>
>>>only has FDD and HDD. I have no software on the C drive now but I want
>
> to
>
>>>install Windows 2000 from the PCMCIA cd-rom.
>>>
>>>How can I do it ?
>>>
>>>Thank you.
>>>
>>>Andy
>>>
>>>
>
>
>