First post, by wielkaberta
Hello there,
I am in need for troubleshooting. Not sure that I should either ask in REMOVED or vogons.
Device: Thinkpad340CSE ( https://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:340CSE ). (I see there are very scarce materials for 340 or 340 CSE, whereas 380 is heavily "documented" by google)
Disk: Variety of adapters with variety of cards, tbd...
Battery: Dead for now, I am setting up clock at each time is powered off for longer time.
In short:
During Win3.11 installation with floppy #2 on MS-DOS6.22, I get the error:
Cannot write to drive C.
- Disk images taken from REMOVED
- I've successfully installed MS-Dos6.22 which is booting successfully.
- Then I wanted to follow it with installing Win 3.11 for Workgroups (first some polish version, then english version).
- After inserting second floppy where transition from DOS setup to winSetup occurs, I cannot seem to load the "fill up name / surname / organization" window form as it is stuck on this white screen, where the error occurs. What's more, I cannot use the mouse, nor the numlock/capslock LED is reacting at all. This error window display looks like some "primitive displaybox" used for some low level errors.
- I've tried number of adapters, first it was 2,5 PATA / CF adapter for 4GB, but then I've managed to find 2,5 PATA / SD adapter with 128MB card. Same happens on BOTH.
- I don't have physical HDD as it is pretty scarce.
- Figured that this device might be very limited with disk geometry. Does it try to calculate free space? BIOS is limited here as it has some "thinkpad" custom BIOS, not typical AWARD/AMI bios like where I can set up HDD properly.
- For floppy images I am using rawwritewin0.7 and also used xfdisk for partitioning.
I have hard time telling what's the deal here. I just want to try narrow this down.