Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:35:15 -0700
From: "venture" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
Hey Neil -
Thanks heaps! I'll try doing the serial (slow) cable with the Lib as the
client and see what results. I saw someplace a listing of a store that has
the adapters, and that would be brilliant.
I've just got to get this thing running Linux. . . I have a feeling now
that this is going to take some time and a lot of different hacks before I
find the one to work for me.
Cheers!
-warren
----- Original Message -----
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Libretto" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, August 27, 2001 11:30 PM
Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
> 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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