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by dune2
Mon Feb 20, 2012 8:10 am
Forum: ThinkPad Legacy Hardware
Topic: 701C max hard disk size?
Replies: 4
Views: 1561

Re: 701C max hard disk size?

OK so soon turned out to be a couple of months. I did a lot of messing around after the last post and shelved the project but I'm feeling the urges to get it back up and running again. The 4gb Transcend is causing me headaches. With FreeDOS booted from floppy I managed to partition the CF card so it...
by dune2
Fri Oct 28, 2011 7:19 am
Forum: ThinkPad Legacy Hardware
Topic: 701C max hard disk size?
Replies: 4
Views: 1561

Re: 701C max hard disk size?

I've got myself a 4gb Transcend 133x CF at your reccomendation from the other thread 8) If I'm right in thinking, I can get grub installed and the BIOS will boot grub... I did actually have grub on the 8gb card and despite the BIOS claiming there is no hard disk it would find Grub and attempt to boo...
by dune2
Mon Oct 24, 2011 5:51 pm
Forum: ThinkPad Legacy Hardware
Topic: 701C max hard disk size?
Replies: 4
Views: 1561

701C max hard disk size?

I'm wanting to keep my 701 hard drive as is (it's still got the preinstalled PC-DOS and Win 3.1) and use a CF card as substitute. It's the best option out there as far as I can tell :D Unfortunately I believe the CF card I'm trying may be too large, it's 8gb. I've read that 2.1gb definitely works an...

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