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I just bought an IBM thinkPad 775C and it came with Win 95 installed. It
only has 450+ mg HD and I think that is stretching it's capabilities a
little. Besides, I like Win 3.1 better. The problem is I don't know how to
remove Win 95 and then get DOS 6.22 on wqith the right autoexec.bat and
config.sys setup. I would assume I would start by formatting the HD, but
THEN WHAT??? Could someone out there lead me through this one time? I don't
have a sound card or CD rom, it has an active matrix screen and 16 meg of
ram. I don't have now, but will have a PMCIA card 28.8 modem. Anyone know
what I need to do?
Thank you very much,
R. Thomas Breeze

Quote:>I just bought an IBM thinkPad 775C and it came with Win 95 installed. It
>only has 450+ mg HD and I think that is stretching it's capabilities a
>little. Besides, I like Win 3.1 better. The problem is I don't know how to
>remove Win 95 and then get DOS 6.22 on wqith the right autoexec.bat and
>config.sys setup. I would assume I would start by formatting the HD, but
>THEN WHAT???

Quote:>I don't
>have a sound card or CD rom, it has an active matrix screen and 16 meg of
>ram. I don't have now, but will have a PMCIA card 28.8 modem.

Quote:>I just bought an IBM thinkPad 775C and it came with Win 95 installed. It
>only has 450+ mg HD and I think that is stretching it's capabilities a
>little. Besides, I like Win 3.1 better. The problem is I don't know how to
>remove Win 95 and then get DOS 6.22 on wqith the right autoexec.bat and
>config.sys setup. I would assume I would start by formatting the HD, but
>THEN WHAT??? Could someone out there lead me through this one time? I don't
>have a sound card or CD rom, it has an active matrix screen and 16 meg of
>ram. I don't have now, but will have a PMCIA card 28.8 modem. Anyone know
>what I need to do?
>Thank you very much,
>R. Thomas Breeze

make a bootable disc from DOS 6.22 and copy the files FDISK, FORMAT
and SYS.COM onto it.

Trash your drive and boot from the dos disk. After reformatting copy
the system files across from the boot disk with the command SYS C: (if
C:is your drive letter.

Then reboot from C: and stick the first Win3.11 disk in and run SETUP.

Dont make the boot disk from WIN95 DOS as DOS 7 is probably
incompatible and Win95 B  is definately not happy with DOS 6.22.

regards

       Chris D

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 RTBL> I just bought an IBM thinkPad 775C and it came with Win 95 installed.
 RTBL> It only has 450+ mg HD and I think that is stretching it's capabilities
 RTBL> a little. Besides, I like Win 3.1 better. The problem is I don't know
 RTBL> how to remove Win 95 and then get DOS 6.22 on wqith the right
 RTBL> autoexec.bat and config.sys setup. I would assume I would start by
 RTBL> formatting the HD, but THEN WHAT??? Could someone out there lead me
 RTBL> through this one time? I don't have a sound card or CD rom, it has an
 RTBL> active matrix screen and 16 meg of ram. I don't have now, but will have
 RTBL> a PMCIA card 28.8 modem. Anyone know what I need to do?

You should be able to install DOS from the floppy, assuming its a legit
release and you have a floppy drive. You didn't say, but those are reasonable
assumptions.

I've always installed DOS by hand myself, but the INSTALL and SETUP programs
that should be on the disk should do it. The standard AUTOEXEC.BAT and
CONFIG.SYS should do it for you, since you have no "toys" and HIMEM doesn't
need special switches until you get over 16 megs of ram. When you het the
modem, it should come with a disk and instructiions.

... ...but this time *you* put the trousers on the chimp.
___ Blue Wave/DOS v2.30

Quote:>  RTBL> I just bought an IBM thinkPad 775C and it came with Win 95 installed.
>  RTBL> It only has 450+ mg HD and I think that is stretching it's capabilities
>  RTBL> a little. Besides, I like Win 3.1 better. The problem is I don't know
>  RTBL> how to remove Win 95 and then get DOS 6.22 on wqith the right
>  RTBL> autoexec.bat and config.sys setup. I would assume I would start by
>  RTBL> formatting the HD, but THEN WHAT??? Could someone out there lead me
>  RTBL> through this one time? I don't have a sound card or CD rom, it has an
>  RTBL> active matrix screen and 16 meg of ram. I don't have now, but will have
>  RTBL> a PMCIA card 28.8 modem. Anyone know what I need to do?

[Options]
BootMulti=1
BootGUI=1
Network=1

So you would want to change it to this:

[Options]
BootMulti=1
BootGUI=0
Network=1

Now when you boot Windows 95, you should get a plain DOS-style
interface.

If you really prefer the old-style Win3.1 interface to windows, you can
instead use Program Manager.  Surprisingly, it is installed by default
when you loaded Windows 95.  The easiest way to use this would be to put
an item for PROGMAN.EXE in your Startup group.  Your groups are already
there.

I suppose you could also put PROGMAN as your 'shell' entry in the [boot]
section of your SYSTEM.INI, but I wouldn't want to try it.  The entry on
my system looks like this:

[boot]
shell=Explorer.exe

So you might want to change it to this:

[boot]
shell=PROGMAN.exe

--
Those who do not understand Unix are condemned to reinvent it, poorly.
                -- Henry Spencer

: I just bought an IBM thinkPad 775C and it came with Win 95 installed. It
: only has 450+ mg HD and I think that is stretching it's capabilities a
: little. Besides, I like Win 3.1 better. The problem is I don't know how to
: remove Win 95 and then get DOS 6.22 on wqith the right autoexec.bat and
: config.sys setup. I would assume I would start by formatting the HD, but
: THEN WHAT??? Could someone out there lead me through this one time? I don't

First, make sure you have a bootable floppy with at least a minimal
installation of DOS on it.  Make sure you have format.com and fdisk.com on
it.  Then, put it in your drive and reboot the computer.  You'll probably
need to run fdisk first and create 1 or more DOS partitions.  Then, run
format /u /s c: to make your hard drive bootable.  Next either install the
rest of your DOS or create a directory on c: called DOS and copy your
minimal installation in there.

Now, you need to get the Windows 3.1 install disks and install windows to
the hard drive.