Need some ideas...

[efrain]

My sister purchased an old IBM thinkpad - the sticker said it was a Pentium 233mhz, but after running some diagnostics on it I found it to be a 486sx 33mhz.&nbsp;&nbsp;Anyways, she's only going to use it till her work has another sale and then she can buy a newer model.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Here's the problem:<br><br>The laptop only has a 170MB hard-drive!!&nbsp;&nbsp;All she wants to use the laptop for is to surf the net.&nbsp;&nbsp;So all I need to install is Windows and a web browser.&nbsp;&nbsp;The laptop has no CD-ROM and the only installed OS is DOS.&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>On previous occasions I've used fast pc linker to copy the cab files over and then run the installation from the hard-drive.&nbsp;&nbsp;Unfortunately, I can't do that this time!&nbsp;&nbsp;<br><br>Is there some type of DOS utility that would let me run the installation from a desktop PC onto the laptop or is there someway to connect a desktop CD-ROM to a serial or parallel port on the laptop?<br><br>I know it's proably better to upgrade the hard-drive but I'd rather not spend the cash as she may get a newer laptop in a couple of months.<br><br>I would appreciate any suggestions.<br><br>Thank-you.

 

[carpeliam]

wait a second... it sounds like you got scammed. How exactly did you buy this ancient laptop? <p>Liam Morley<br><a href=mailto:lmorley@wpi.edu>lmorley@wpi.edu</a><br><a href=

http://www.wpi.edu/~lmorley/>

] :: imotic :: website :: [</a><br>"light the deep, and bring silence to the world.<br>
light the world, and bring depth to the silence.

 

[efrain]

well, her company was selling their old laptops to employees.&nbsp;&nbsp;She paid $75, but other similar 486 models that had more ram and a higher clock speed were selling for $25 - $35 bucks.&nbsp;&nbsp;Someone switched the price tag off some of the newer laptops. (They were the first ones to go!)<br><br>Any ideas though?