Install QNX on laptop's microdrive attach to pcmcia

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Due to company IT policy, I can’t repartition the main HD. The HD has
WinNT workstation with encrypted filesystem.

I like to install QNX on a laptop’s microdirve attach to pcmcia.

Have anyone done this before? Can it be done? Can I boot
to microdrive from the normal notebook bias?

-Tony Lee
Nokia Networks

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“Tony Lee” <tl_168168@hotmail.com> wrote in message
news:a6o4jp$knd$1@inn.qnx.com…

Due to company IT policy, I can’t repartition the main HD. The HD has
WinNT workstation with encrypted filesystem.

I like to install QNX on a laptop’s microdirve attach to pcmcia.

Have anyone done this before? Can it be done? Can I boot
to microdrive from the normal notebook bias?

If the BIOS machines supports booting from it I think it’s possible.
If the BIOS doesn’t support booting from PCMCIA, you could still
created a custom boot floppy that would boot from the PCMCIA
microdrive.

That being said, the installation won’t be easy, it look like a custom
install job to me. I think your bet is to install from Windows and
fornat the microdrive with FAT. Then next step would be to create
a custom boot floppy that would start the devp-pccard and start the
eide driver and mount the file system.

Futhermore I think microdriver are painfully slow (mainly if you want
to do developmenton it)

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-Tony Lee
Nokia Networks