Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 07:57:31
From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
Reading the page I pointed out below - looks like you need either
Interserver/interlink at both ends (dos6.2) or DCC (win95+) at both ends -
if you have a partitioned disk, that's a damn good start!
Neil
>From: "venture" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Subject: Re: 70CT bios question
>Date: Tue, 28 Aug 2001 00:40:27 -0700
>
>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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