install hangs on IBM Thinkpad X23

[Dru]

On Sun, 3 Oct 2004 ignavusincognitus at gmail.com wrote:

> http://s89813419.onlinehome.us/thinkpad-floppy.iso
>
> It's not bootable - I don't think that can be done in 1.44MB. You
> will need a separate bootable DOS disk. I used MS-DOS 6.22. Maybe FreeDOS
> will work.
>
> There is also an .img version should you need a floppy image.
>
> PS2.EXE is very slow to run. But it does seem to do the job. Extract PS2.MSG
> and view it on another machine to speed things up.


Update: installed Firefox on the 2000 system and got the download 
immediately. Extracted the utility directory to a floppy. Found an old DOS 
boot disk to boot the Thinkpad into DOS. Ran the uinstall utility as 
mentioned in the txt and rec'd an error saying if the error repeats to 
contact IBM. The error repeated. Ran the PS2 utility which took forever, 
then told me to run "ps2 ?" which took forever and did nothing. Nothing 
has been added to my BIOS, but at least the utility didn't nuke it.

If I have time tomorrow after work I'll try making a PXE server and see if 
I have any better luck with that. If I don't, I'm going shopping for a 
CDROM cable. Hopefully I won't still be stuck with a BIOS issue...

Out of curiosity, Dan, can you send me your BIOS revision from a working 
laptop? I'm pretty sure I have the original one--it's dated from 2002.

Dru