Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 01:02:52 From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Win98 Toshiba drivers on 20GB HDD setup et al
>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 20:33:12 +0000 >From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Win98 Toshiba drivers on 20GB HDD setup et al > >>Date: Thu, 24 Jan 2002 12:09:25 >>From: "neil barnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> >> >>>Neil was just mentioning that he had a problem setting up Mandrake on a >>>70CT that he didn't have with his 50CT. Could there be a set of problems >>>the 70CT has with the old Win98 drivers that the 50CTs don't? Why else >>>would Toshiba pull those old drivers from their support page and offer >>>new >>>ones? >>> >> >>I believe, but cannot prove, that the problem with the mandrake >>installation is down to the fact that the 70 processor has mmx and the 50 >>doesn't - and I think that the extra code required to handle that is >>sufficient to trip an out-of-memory error. >> >>I suppose the mmx instructions could be significant to the drivers, though >>they are supposed to be invisble to code which doesn't use them (they >>share >>address space with the FP stack, I think) - maybe someone used something >>in >>a flag or control register which differs between the two processors? > >Still... might there be other methods of installing Mandrake on a L70, or >was this te only method available? > >Matt As discussed ad nauseum, my preferred method for getting any linux onto a lib is via a temporary disk install in a desktop, and letting the hardware robots sort it out afterwards. Just needs a bit of care in the video installation stage. _________________________________________________________________ Join the world�s largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ************************************************************** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ -------TO UNSUBSCRIBE------- Reply to any of the list messages. The reply mail should be addressed to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Then replace any text on the message's subject line: cmd:unsubscribe --------TO UNSUBSCRIBE DIGEST------ Do above but with this on subject line: cmd:unsubscribe digest **************************************************************
