Solve : Panaonic LF1700J mystery??

1.	Solve : Panaonic LF1700J mystery??
Answer» Kay smarty pants here's the question. You have a Panasonic PD/CD Rom 650MB SCSI drive that you are TRYING to connect to a Panasonic laptop which has a clean harddrive how do you install an OS without a cd rom. I'm trying to install either XP professinal or 98 on it right now it has Dos w/Win 3.1. The laptop is about 10 years old but meets all XP min requirements.How do you plan on hooking up a SCSI CDROm to the laptop ? ? Parallel port ? Serial port ? These will be painfully slow. If i were doing it i would buy a 2.5" to IDE connector cable and hook up the laptop drive to my desktop. Then using a bootdisk of WinME or later USE FDISK to create a secondary partition of about 1G and copy the XP CD to that partition. Then re-install the HDD to the laptop; boot to DOS; log the second partition; BROWSE to the i386 directory then type Setup and hit Enter. patio. 8-) p.s. How big is that HDD ? ?p.s.s i don't believe we have a member named Smarty Pants but i could be WRONG...

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