Re: Upgrading 701 to Win95

[Trevor Boicey <tboicey@brit.ca>]

Robert Munzenrider wrote:
> I'm a little confused by the little port one uses to connect either the
> external floppy or a parallel printer. I'm going to need that port to
> connect a parallel- port-type Backpack-Brand External CD drive. I will have
> to use that cd/port to install Win95 from its Win95 Upgrade CD.
> _BUT_, I need to access the A-drive through the same port at some point
> during the installation process to make my Win95 StartUp disk.   ????

  Attach the port replicator, and use that parallel port. Had
to do this to install Linux on mine from ZIP drive. Note that
that parallel port is usually not lpt2 it's lpt3.

  (I'm assuming here that the port replicator comes with all
systems, it does around here)

  Note that I've also heard of people doing it by suspending
when the floppy is needed, and switching, then resuming. Might
get really annoying if you have to do it more than 3 times, but
it's kind of novel.

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