Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 06:23:14
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
Connection. Um. If you've tried DCC and that didn't work (did you use a
'laplink' type parallel cable? They swap certain pins over to make it work,
a straight pin-pin cable doesn't work)...how about DCC with a serial cable -
but it will be sloooooow. IIRC win95 should respond to DCC though you'll
have to make the lib end the client - it's so many years since I tried this:
There's a pretty good looking page at
http://www.tecno.demon.co.uk/dcc/dcc.html which has some tips for getting
things running - I think the easiest way is to run Interlnk on the lib and
intersvr on the windows machine in dos mode - provided it can see the cdrom
in dos mode, you should be able to copy it.
I don't recall the original status - IIRC you have no network, no floppy,
but you do have a cdrom...do you have a cdrom writer on your desktop
machine? (I'm heading into unexplored territory here...)? I think the
difference between a floppy boot and the default boot is in the original
boot loader - if you start it from a hard disk it doesn't respond to 'text'
as one of the boot options, maybe you could hack that?
Alternatively, if you can source an adapter IDE->2.5" that will let you do
the installation on the desktop machine. All the drivers will be wrong, so
you'll have to let harddrake throw them all away after you load, and make
sure you have the RPMs available on the same disk (I dual boot W95 and
linux, with a copy of the installation disk on the windows partition so I
can see it from linux), and you probably don't want to be running kde2, but
fvwm is quick and reasonably useful...
Neil
>From: "venture" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 11:00:27 -0700
>
>Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2001 10:53:06 -0700
>From: "venture" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
>
>Hi!
>
>Neil, this puts my efforts in a different light. Have you any on
>connecting
>the lib to a desktop? I tried the direct cable thing and I can't seem to
>get either side to be host or client. I suspect the problem may be the OLD
>win95 OS on the Libretto and perhaps the fact that it is the Japanese
>version, so perhaps a double byte issue. I'm trying to connect it
>initially to a Windows machine. The Windows machine is also networked to
>a
>Linux box so that I'd have some options if I could just get it to respond.
>.
>
>Cheers!
>
>-warren
>
>
> > Mandrake installation from hard disk on the 50/70 will only work up to
> > version 7.1, and requires a floppy so you can start it in text mode.
> > Otherwise, though it will start from the hard disk, it will fail with a
> > memory error partway through the installation. Unfortunately, the text
> > install doesn't give the option of using the Reiserfs file system, which
>is
> > something of a pain, though I'm looking into that. Also, I never got the
> > sound working properly in 16 bits though it looks like Robbert may have
>a
> > solution there.
> >
> > I successfully loaded M8.0 by putting the disk in a desktop and loading
>it
> > from there, then letting harddrake sort out the various hardware
>changes,
> > but it required (again) having a copy of the RPMs on the hard disk (to
>put
> > the missing files on from) and some hand editing of the XF86Config file
>-
> > for some reason, all the configure tools die horribly on the lib :)
> >
> > Also, M8 is very slow if you're using the default KDE2.0 - it's a real
> > memory hog. M7.1 is the best combination I've found so far.
> >
> > Neil
>
>
>
>
>
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