Date: Sat, 23 Feb 2002 14:53:04 +0000 From: T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] 2.5" <> 3.5"
Hi Ray (morning?) > > >[T] Ah, well I'm ahead of you there .. I've been wearing stockings and suspenders >ever since the wife found some in the glove compartment of our car? (told her they >were mine..) > > Hey Pres, you've got some competition here! > > > >[T] Ah, when I said 'PC' I *meant* another Laptop (phew, I think I got away with >that one!) > > *evil grin* > > >> Of course, once you've passed the Libretterati initiation ceremony you're allowed >to ;-) > > > >[T] Ah .. "Dear Sir, I won't be buying your 50CT after all due to an oversight ... " > > Umm ... perhaps its late but I didn't get this line ... [T] Bit cryptic .. sri .. the shock of actually going though the "Libretterati initiation ceremony" I decided to write to the seller of the 50CT I *was* going to buy "Dear Sir, I won't be buying your 50CT after all due to an oversight ... " etc? > Umm ... well ya but what about the hibernation area? This is where the libby writes >the contents of RAM off to when it hibernates so it can restore it on wakeup ... this >area is hardcoded into the BIOS as being the highest X meg of hdd space it can see >where X is the size of RAM plus book-keeping info. [T] Ok .. > Since the BIOS can see a maximum of 1024 cylinders, this area is either the highest >X meg of the hard drive, or the X meg just below 1024 cylinders, whichever is lower. >The BIOS does this independant of partitioning or OS ... which means if you have >anything important there, regardless of how you've partitioned things, it'll get >oblitherated. [T] Ooops! *When* does it actually do this? > Like I said, do the partitioning and formatting in the libby using a DOS boot disk >(with FDISK and format on it) then move the hard drive to another computer, using the >converter if necessary, to perform the copy across of all the install files and >drivers, then put the hard drive BACK into the libby to do the actual install. [T] Got it .. > Well you can get around the card and socket services thingy if you put all the >install files and Windows drivers for your CD-ROM drive onto the hard drive using >another computer ... that way you can do the entire install with the hard drive in >the libby, and the hard drive will have all the files you'll need. This skips >straight over the DOS PCMCIA problem (Windows has its own services to get the PCMCIA >slots working, you'll just need to find the drivers for the CD-ROM drive). [T] I will? Where will I find them Ray? I got most of the stuff I could see from the Tosh Canada site? > > > Hope this helps! I'm off to bed now #-) [T] Nite (or Morning!) > > > - Raymond T i m ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
