Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 08:46:54 +0100 From: "Adrian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Red Hat on a 50ct
I already have downloaded the Toshiba FDD drivers from their support website - it still doesn't work, even though device manager coreectly recognises it. As for the cdrom, I think it's a Freecom device - which I cannot find any 95 drivers for. The PCMCIA slot is ok as far as I know - I just plugged a 3com 56k modem into it (which worked straight away.......) to connect to the 'net to download the drivers. A friend told me that the BIOS had some sort of rudimentary cdrom drivers that would allow the Libretto to install straight from the cd - I'm not worried about having a Windows partition with only 800mb of space, although I might reconsider with a bigger drive at a later date. Adrian ----- Original Message ----- From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Libretto <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Wednesday, September 11, 2002 3:30 AM Subject: Re: [LIB] Red Hat on a 50ct Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 10:24:41 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Red Hat on a 50ct At 04:08 PM 10/09/2002 -0700, you wrote: >Date: Wed, 11 Sep 2002 00:05:30 +0100 >From: "Adrian Clarke" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Subject: Red Hat on a 50ct > >I'm new here and far from being a computer geek, and I'm looking for some >advice. I just bought a 50 ct from Ebay, standard spec installed with >Win95. I got a Toshiba Options Mobile CD-RW-DVD (2793020) with it, but I >don't think this will ever run under 95 being too new (I can't find the >drivers anywhere). I also have the proper Libretto FDD which for some >reason won't work, even though it recognises the FDD when it's plugged in, >I always get a drive a: not accessible error. You need the Toshiba FDD drivers from the Toshiba website to get the FDD running under Windows. The only time you'll get the FDD running WITHOUT drivers is if you booted off it (because the BIOS recognises the FDD and switches the PCMCIA slots to some special mode which allows direct access to the FDD for booting). As for the Toshiba Options Mobile CD-RW-DVD, you might want to consider putting Win98 onto the laptop? I thought I recall mumblings from somewhere that it could be convinced to work under 98 (but then again I've not looked myself ... for instance, if the thing is cardbus then there's no chance of it working in the L50/70). Where are you looking for drivers? It may be worthwhile seeing if you can identify who made the drive (it's highly likely to be a rebadged device), they may have drivers for older OS's. > Not having any way of installing any other software I'm a bit stuck, > although I had planned on deleting 95 anyway. A friend said Red Hat would > install straight from the cd, without any PCMCIA support. Is this > correct? I had wanted to install Linux anyway (my first time!), but I > don't want to go and spend �30 or so and then find it doesn't............. I highly recommend getting a HDD adapter to let you plug the libby's HDD into a desktop, then do things that way. I recently posted links to archived posts of mine which say in excessive detail how to go about doing this on an L50, if you have time, it'd probably be worth having a look! Hope this helps! - Raymond --- /~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~\ | | "Does fuzzy logic tickle?" | | ___ | "My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup?" | | /__/ +-------------------------------------------| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto 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 ************************************************************** ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
