The Final Word: Following Up On The Installing Win3.1 Thing

Hey, everybody!

I told you I'd keep you posted about what I found out, so
here I go.

The external floppy drive arrived today. I plugged it in,
set the boot-up to look for it, and left the CD drive in the
Ultrabay. When I selected start with CD ROM support, it saw
and read the CD drive. Now, I can simply use a CD version
of Win95 or 98, I don't have to fool with DOS and 3.1!

Unless I want to....

Tomorrow, I'm going to be buying the full version of DR-DOS
7 (complete with that big honking book), plus the Dummies
book with Red Hat Fedora. My old ThinkPad has become a
laboratory mouse. Since I already have a newer notebook
that will run whatever I need (700MHZ) and my tower, the
120MHZ ThinkPad is perfect for experimenting with. I can't
wait to check out Linux for myself, and learning to work
with DOS might still come in handy, especially for a retro
gamer like myself.

Thank you to everyone for the help in getting 3.1 loaded.
It was an excellent learning experience, unlike the more
numerous, painful ones when dealing with Microsoft products.
;-)

Dobre utka,
Pete Holland Jr.