Date: Wed, 01 May 2002 21:54:48 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Win2K installs on 100/110s
At 04:40 PM 30/04/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Tue, 30 Apr 2002 16:37:32 -0700 >From: Tom Stangl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Re: [LIB] Win2K installs on 100/110s > >[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Date: Wed, 1 May 2002 06:28:09 +0700 > > From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Subject: Re: [LIB] Win2K installs on 100/110s > > > > > What needs to be copied from the Win2K CD to the HD for the install? > > > > WINNT directory - that's it, just that one. > >How large is that directory? My Win2K CD is at home, not here... It'll fit comfortably into 500 meg ... watch your command line switches though, I can have a look but IIRC if you don't use a command line switch on the setup program it'll try to make a SECOND copy of the winnt directory (a little dumb if you ask me but thats how it seemed to work IIRC). > > > Are there any files outside of the Win2K CD you'll need? > >So the floppy drivers with Win2K will work? Yup ... in fact if you do an install, even on a desktop, and watch carefully during the preinstall text mode stage, the driver 'Libretto floppy' actually flies past the bottom of the screen (the same part that loads those esoteric drivers for things like Tseng Labs video cards, 10 year old Compaq SmartArrays, HP FibreChannel cards and so on) ... > > * including reserving the "hardware (BIOS) hibernate" space > > I'm not using any disk/overlay managers or anything like that. > >How much space, where? Just create the 8Gig, then leave about 1-200 Megs >after >that (formatted or not?), then the rest partitioned however I wish? Don't bother formatting that space .. in fact on my hard drive I've just left it as unpartitioned space (created a partition there to space the rest of the partitions over it then went back and deleted it). >I had forgotten that I don't need to worry about an overlay with Win2K, Be very careful. If the proverbial starts hitting the fan, you'll have one hellava time trying to get your DOS boot disks and partition recovery tools working (and you can't postemptively install the overlay either). Thats the same reason now I only format in NTFS when absoluptly necessary for security reasons ... makes data recovery too much of a headache. 2k doesn't seem to mind running under FAT32 ... > so I >guess I could use any 40Gig. Is IBM or Toshiba better? They cost about the >same. Flip a coin. Chances are the drive mechanics come from the same factory anyway. Perhaps aim for Toshiba if you're looking to overclock, I hear the IBM's electronics don't take kindly to raised bus speeds. - 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://www.silverace.com/libretto/ - Archives -------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 **************************************************************
