Appendix 1: Downloading Software From The Compaq Website - Compaq 1700 - Armada - PII 266 MHz Installation Manual

Installing Microsoft Windows NT Workstation 4.0 on Compaq Armada Products
Appendix 1: Downloading Software from
the Compaq Website
1. The base URL for all Compaq Portables software is
www.compaq.com/support/files/portables/us/index.html. Enter this location into the browser of your
choice.
2. You are presented three drop-down dialog boxes for Family, Model, and Operating System. Fill in
each box as appropriate and click Locate.
a. Family – which series of Armada are you trying to find software for; e.g. Armada 7700, Armada
4200, etc.
b. Model – the specific portable; e.g. 42XX where XX represents the last two digits – as in 42100 or
4220. For the 7800 Armada series, it is in the form of XXXX/Z/XXXX/Z/Z/Z – e.g.
6266/T/5000/D/M/1. See the bottom of your portable to obtain the proper model number.
c. Operating system – in this case "Windows NT Workstation 4.0"
3. A list of currently available files is displayed. Click on each sub-bulleted item to display information
on that particular deliverable.
4. Click Download.
5. Place all of the files into a common directory so that they may be extracted for use in the scripts. A
common directory used is C:\~COMPAQ.
See Appendix 2 for instructions on using the SoftPaq utility.
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