Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 15:20:18 -0000
From: "Mike King" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Win2k on Lib 110?
How do you go about swapping displays between internal and external. Do you
have to reboot every time?
I will agree that everything else works really well and has been the OS of
choice since Win2k RC1
Mike
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From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 1:54 PM
Subject: Re: Win2k on Lib 110?
> Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:49:02 -0500
> From: "Lawrence Young" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: Win2k on Lib 110?
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Kapusta Gerhard" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, October 30, 2000 3:19 AM
> Subject: Win2k on Lib 110?
>
>
> > Date: Mon, 30 Oct 2000 08:46:51 +0100
> > From: Kapusta Gerhard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > Subject: Win2k on Lib 110?
> >
> > Hi!
> >
> > Since some Days I own a Libretto 110. My plan is to install Win2k, but
> there
> > is no official support for this. My current state is:
> > - BIOS V8.00 installed (should be Win2k capeable).
> > - Win2k installed and up.
> > - Power management for Win2k installed. The Control Panel has now an
> > extension (whrere processor speed and brightness of the display is
> > adjustable) but changes on this panel make no effect, these parameters
> > always remain on the defaults.
>
> It does work on my machine as tied to the current power profile.
>
> > - There is no "Battery"-control panel (as in Win98), and I see no need
for
> > it, because the extended power management control panel covers all.
>
> The W2K bettery meter works very well and even displays how many hours and
> minutes left for the battery.
>
> > - Suspend and hibernate is working correct. Win2k generates for
> hibernation
> > a file "hiberfil.sys" on the system-partition. So is there an need for a
> > second "hibernation-partition" which is used for other
operating-systems?
> > And how can I remove this partition, if it is not needed?
>
> The BIOS is the one that uses the "hibernation partition" and there are
> times that something will trigger this hibernation and possibly corrupt
your
> data that saved in the same region. To remove the parition, just use Win2K
> disk manager to format the unused the parition.
>
> > - I have not yet found the Win2k-utilities to make BIOS-adjustments.
> > - What is the Toshiba mobile extensions software?
>
> There is none.
>
> > - I have planned to install a IBM 20GB HD - will it work in Win2k
(because
> > the BIOS-limit is still 8GB!)
>
> Win2K does not rely upon BIOS. If you format the drive in Win2K, you
should
> be able to get 20GB
> >
> > Does anybody has experience with Win2k on a Lib?
>
> Win2K is much better than other OSes I ran on my L100 provided you have
> enough memory (64MB). I haven't tried WinME yet.
>
> Foxbat
>
>
>
>
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