Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:04:04 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Help
At 09:06 AM 11/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 16:36:05 +0000 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Help On Monday 11 Nov 2002 3:50 pm, you wrote: > Date: Mon, 11 Nov 2002 23:43:36 +0800 > From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Re: [LIB] Help >
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I'd hazard a guess that *maybe* Win95 doesn't, by default, try to initialize the PCMCIA cards (I recall after install, having to double click on the PCMCIA icon in control panel to actually install the 32 bit access drivers). Perhaps until you do that, Win95 won't initialize PCMCIA on boot and hence won't knock the BIOS off it's special FDD access routines when in contrast, Win98 will initialize PCMCIA straight away?ppy (which is, I submit, a bit > > rich!). > > Well firstly, the BIOS only treats the floppy as a standard floppy if it's > seen on bootup (ie. you put the FDD in after bootup and without drivers it That may be where I have seen it - perhaps I've always had the floppy plugged in when I needed it and booted in w95 :) Having said that, I'm pretty sure I never installed a driver under w95, while w98 was a nightmare if you got the wrong driver.
That may have been confirmed by me. What happens under linux is that the firstHmm ... nah it was definitely the PCMCIA boot disk that killed it (at the specific point that it initialized the PCMCIA controller) ... it was happy when I used a standard boot disk (but then I had other unrelated problems).
load of the floppy is via the bios. Thereafter linux installs its own floppy
drivers which bypass the bios, and lo and behold there ain't no floppy
there... bugger!
Does it? Win98SE/WinNT/Win2k seemed quite happy in my old machine (2 RAID arrays of 2 drives each, 2 CD-ROM drives, 2 extra hard drives plus parallel zip drive plus numerous mapped drives ;-)> >I'm not inclined to experiment further because I just used 95 as a vehicle > > to get 98 and linux cd images on the HD for daughter's machine. > > Wouldn't a drive converter be a lot easier/faster? Why would you need 95 > first to get 98 onto there? I have so many drives (5) hanging off the desktop machine it wasn't worth the hassle of doing it that way - windows gets unhappy with too many drives, it seems, and throws major wobblies.
Why don't you just temporarily replace one drive with the libby (just long enough to do the file copy)?
So, having a big heap of floppies, I copied them to the disk,
Good lord! How long did *that* take?!?!
Gee you had more luck that I did! Linux was a headache to get working (including 2 kernel recompiles) just to get PCMCIA and networking ... and I still haven't really got my FDD working properly yet ... not that I tried very hard since ... hehethen installed from the hd, then (the cd rom being recognised in the pcmcia) copied the w98 and linux cd to the hd, then loaded w98, then loaded linux - which has sensible drivers and recognises the pc network card -
On and this is RH6.2 ... does Mandrake have better support (not that I can be bothered reinstalling it)?
so I could get the windows drivers from the net... there have to be easier ways, but now daughter has a dual boot mandrake/w98 machine that works on our local network. (I missed out the bit where I loaded W2k and then took it off again)
Hehe ... off floppies again I presume? ;-) - 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 **************************************************************
