Date: Tue, 05 Mar 2002 07:02:30 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Ok .. so that's nearly sorted ...
At 10:05 AM 4/03/2002 -0800, you wrote: >Date: Mon, 04 Mar 2002 17:59:57 +0000 >From: T i m <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Ok .. so that's nearly sorted ... > >Hi All, >... > >My 12V 'Mobility' adapter turned up from the US of A for around £30 all >in? I just need the Missus to come home with the car to test it (ciggy >lighter socket). Still going to make a 12V lead/box with 'tricker' cct >...though for motorbike camping. You'll have a slight problem though ... as your 12V battery runs out, your libby won't know about it because it recons its on external power (which it presumes is always about 15V). Therefore, when the 12V battery runs out, your libby will lose power without warning (no emergency hibernation, etc.). Look in the archive for details, discussions on a similar line were carried out a couple of months ago ... why don't you use the 12V->15V auto adapter with your battery? You can get the cig lighter socket for $2 or so if you don't want to splice cables. >Question though, how well does 98SE handle all the extended features for >the Lib withthout me loading the Tosh 'extras' and possibly mixing W95 >utils on a W98 system and screwing it up? ie, Do I need a 'hairy' >lightbulb? Well I can't speak for the L50 but the L100 does a reasonable job except that you control the hibernation and standby activities using the Windows power management aplet and you control Toshiba specific things (screen brightness, processor speed, etc.) through the hairy lightbulb. It got a little confusing for me because the laptop kept ignoring the hairy lightbulb's hibernation settings and I was wondering what was happening. Most of the Toshiba Win95 utils also work for 98 (indeed for most of them there aren't 98 versions). For my L100 I just installed all the 95 stuff then installed the 98 stuff over them (some of the 98 stuff was actually updates and not full programs anyway). >Lastly, I feel after all this effort I'd like to Ghost this image >somehow. I have a 6G PCMCIA drive or network card, or (if I can find it) >a parallel port network adapter ... hmm, that sounds easiest .. no card >services or point enablers .. ) OK if you have a SINGLE BOOT configuration the easiest way is to put the hard drive into another computer, boot into Windows and just do a plain copy of all the files on the hard drive to somewhere else (or zip them up or something). You can't do it booted ONTO that hard drive because then you'll be trying to copy files that are currently open for writing which won't work. You also can't do it booted to a DOS boot disk because then you'll lose your long filenames. After that, make yourself a boot disk from the libby and coppy the libby's version of format.com over to it. If/when you need to restore, simply partition and format the hard drive with the /s switch (in the libby so it masks out the hibernation area), put the hard drive into another computer and copy all the stuff back across. Saves having to use utilities like Norton Ghost, etc. (but remember, this ONLY works in Win9x for a plain single boot system). I've done it twice with my libby (when I couldn't get my version of Norton Ghost working due to confusions with EZ-Bios) and its worked out fine both times. Hope this helps! - 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 **************************************************************
