serial port on thinkpad not showing

[Janina Sajka]

Cheryl:

Here's my advice. If you can't read the C:> drive, forget it. Try to do 
what you need to do exclusively on A:. That should work.

You have a bootable DOS floppy, and you know how to boot it. Strip any 
thing you don't need off that file in order to make enough room for the 
ps2 utilities. You can do all of this on Linux, as I'm sure you know, with 
mcopy, mdel, etc., etc.

Once you execute a batch file to set the serial params, per my earlier 
message, reboot. Test to see if that port is working by using something 
silly like:

echo "testing testing" >com1

It will probably sound like garbage because of the baud rate mismatch, 
but that doesn't matter. If it comes alive and starts chattering, you've 
enabled the serial port on the db9 port, and can start Installing Woddy.


On Tue, 20 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote:

> Well, now I tried copying a file from a: to c: and then, since I still don't
> have speech, doing a dir of c: and redirecting it to a file I can look at on my
> other computer. I still got
> volume in drive C has no label
> I hope I don't have a defective C drive or something but it appears to be active
> when I boot without a floppy.
> I wonder if there is a way I can run msd (I assume I'd have to copy the
> apropriate files to a floppy) and get it to do a full report all redirected to a
> file. I seem to remember this can be done but I'd have to be able to do it
> without a lot of maneuvering since I don't have speech.
> An msd if it reported on the hard drive, would tell me how much space was taken
> on the hard drive, etc.
> 
> 
> Cheryl
> 
> 
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