Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:40:50 -0600 From: "Lines, Nick" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] [LIBRETTO] What OS for 50CT
Many thanks for all the responses and for the warm welcome! I completely overlooked NT4, despite me being MS-certified on the platform (D'oh), so I think I'm going to spend a month experimenting with a triple boot of Mandrake 7.1 (thanks Matt), 95 and NT4 to see what suits me best. My objections to 95 are probably unfounded. It does work, but I just have had too many problems in the past, so have always used NT or Win2K. I would guess that problems may have been driver issues, but as has been pointed out the Tosh 95 drivers seem spot on. I'll have to dust down the NT4 install discs and try to find SP37 (or whatever they finally finished at), then perform the necessary incantations to ensure that I don't put a partition where the OS blats the hibernation data. To answer the question on the disc, I'm using an IBM 10GB travelstar that can be picked up for �50-ish from most on-line retailers. http://www.dabs.com was where I bought it from. My wife is beyond the "bored" stage and now into the "annoyed". She wandered into the study to find the Libretto in bits and me looking nervous whilst wielding her nail scissors ;-). A 66MHz bus really makes a hell of a lot of difference. Shame my 50 didn't have the 120MHz underclocked processor but the difference really is noticable. I am in awe of the designers of the system board. Battery charging, SVGA, LCD controller, IDE, memory, P75, PCMCIA controller, ... in that space? Wow. Thanks again everyone. (And my apologies for another essay!) Nick. ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
