| Subject: problems about installing an OS |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 7/28/2008 8:45:20 AM |
| From: "newo" [Email Address Protection] |
dear sir/madam, I am currently using back my very old notebook named Fujitsu Lifebook B142... with celeron 300mhz, 96 mb ram and ... 40 gb harddisk unluckily i don' have any cd-rom...floopy disk...what ever...and the boot devices it allow is only floopy disk and harddrive...i formatted both partition on that harddrive and installed DOS 7.10 on it.. i want to know if there is any method for me to install an OS ... actually i tried to install ME but after 97% of scanning ...it told me ''' Invaild DMIP when returning 39xx:xxxx''' and when i tried to install 98...it told me that i need to have at least 16mb ram...but when i start the computer it shows 96mb and in bios 96mb too...when i tried to put I386 of xp in it and run winnt.exe...after copying files....restart...it just stay at a black screen with a '''_''' on the top left hand corner....could any one ....just please help me with this one...please !!! |
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| Subject: Re: problems about installing an OS |
| Group: microsoft.public.windows.tabletpc |
| Date: 7/28/2008 2:21:32 PM |
| From: "Charlie Russel - MVP" [Email Address Protection] |
I'm afraid you've posted in a newsgroup that is focused on Windows Tablet PC Edition and the Tablet features in Windows Vista. It's not a hardware or OS install forum, and that old lifebook is not a Tablet PC, though it might be a tablet shaped PC. -- Charlie. "newo" <freeowen10@yahoo.com.hk> wrote in message news:uZJ$xjM8IHA.1772@TK2MSFTNGP06.phx.gbl... > dear sir/madam, > I am currently using back my very old notebook named Fujitsu Lifebook > B142... with celeron 300mhz, 96 mb ram and ... 40 gb harddisk > unluckily i don' have any cd-rom...floopy disk...what ever...and the boot > devices it allow is only floopy disk and harddrive...i formatted both > partition on that harddrive and installed DOS 7.10 on it.. > i want to know if there is any method for me to install an OS ... > actually i tried to install ME but after 97% of scanning ...it told me > ''' Invaild DMIP when returning 39xx:xxxx''' and when i tried to install > 98...it told me that i need to have at least 16mb ram...but when i start > the computer it shows 96mb and in bios 96mb too...when i tried to put I386 > of xp in it and run winnt.exe...after copying files....restart...it just > stay at a black screen with a '''_''' on the top left hand corner....could > any one ...just please help me with this one...please !!! > > |
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