Help with an old thinkpad

[Slappy00]

One of my profs asked for a laptop for the lab and well school administration being what it is , got a old and busted thinkpad 1300, completel with every program installed (including netware *barf*) since it was bought. I decided to wipe the dive for her and put a new (fresh) install of win2K Pro on it, but looking at my old and trusty win2K pro disk i have my doubts as to it making it through an installation without a CRC failure somewhere. Then I remembered that the laptop usually has a partition with the installation system and IBM programs on it. All I woudl need to do is use the IBM recovery utility to format and reinstall the OS. Yay i win, wth the exception that when i tried running the recovery program, it said i might need a OS disk. Now the computer did not come with a OS disk, and I am begining to have my doubts if it ever was shipped with one, as we have every other disk and manual for it.

So my question is that for that procedure would i need an OS disk, or is that a standard warning. I also wonder if my ratty old win2k disk will be enough to get me through it?

finally if fresh install is not an option then is there a way to get reid of netware from the login... Its really annoying and since the computer wont be used on the intranet its quite unnecessary.

thanks :S

 

[EvilRick]

Can you see what files are on the recovery partition? If there's an I386 folder, try copying the one from your 2K disk while in Windows to see if it will work.

As for the NetWare, just go into Control Panel and Network Connections. Choose the Local Area Connection and click on Properties. Then just "Uninstall" the service(s) you don't want.

 

[Slappy00]

Thanks Rick.. forgot that netware was a "service" ...

think ill do it tomarrow... it takes days for that thing to boot up with 122MB of ram and all the assorted Academic Computing crap on it.