Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 09:33:30 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 20 gig Fujitsu in an overclocked L50 and working!
At 12:08 PM 25/01/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2002 12:02:41 -0800 (PST) >From: David Chien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] 20 gig Fujitsu in an overclocked L50 and working! > >Of course, it's all whole lot easier if one >1) reinstall everything from scratch. >2) Ghost everything to CD-R disc, then restore in DOS on Libretto from CD-R. Slight problem, I STILL haven't figured out how to get my PCMCIA CD-ROM drive working under DOS (although its probably because I've spent all of 3 seconds trying) ... Norton Ghost's parallel cable ghosting support does me fine and doesn't require that I have 2 PCMCIA devices in the thing at once :-) >For me, it was easiest to create a bootable 250MB fat16 partition on the new HD >with just fdisk and nothing else installed. > >Then, copy all tools (Partition Magic, Ghost, etc.) and Windows setup files >(Win98SE for me) to that partition. Umm ... why make it 250MB? Why not make it the full size that you'll want for the first partition? >Next, install EZ-BIOS from floppy - it'll be happy with whatever's already on >the HD and won't ask you to do anything else. Use the Advanced Option under >EZ-Drive's setup to install just EZ-BIOS. That way it wont' go off and try to >install anything else. I had never used EZ-Bios before so I figured I might as well just do defaults until I knew better ... >Finally, using Parttiion Magic, dupe the only partition you have and make it >bootalbe, hiding the rest, then resize it to desired final size <8.4GB to avoid >the hibernation space. Reboot and run the Windows setup.exe to get that >installed, and off you go. I have a bit of a phobia about Partition Magic but if it DOES let you specify cylinders then I might as well use it to get the hibernation thing going eh? I WAS going to use WinNT's disk manager to do that but looks like it doesn't really wanna play ball. >naturally, once you've got Ghost images on CD-R, it's a boring matter of >restoring from them anytime you want the HD back to perfectly fresh install >once again. Heh I'd rather have ghost images on a separate partition thank you very much ... I don't like the idea of wrestling with either trying to swap booting off floppy then the PCMCIA CD-ROM drive (remember the L50 only has 1 PCMCIA slot) and/or trying to locate my advanced port replicator (I can never remember if its at work or at home) ... I don't recon thats boring ;-) - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | HTTP://www.raybot.net | | ICQ: 31756092 | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | \~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~/ ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
