Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 05:58:45 +0000 From: barnacle <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Help
On Tuesday 12 Nov 2002 12:10 am, you wrote: > Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2002 08:04:04 +0800 > From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >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. > > 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 ;-) Dunno what the problem is - just that trying to use the network and a big drive in certain positions crashes w2k every time. Ok under linux. > > 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?!?! Only an hour or so... > > > then 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 - > > 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 ... hehe > > On and this is RH6.2 ... does Mandrake have better support (not that I can > be bothered reinstalling it)? The best option I found on the lib50/70 was Mandrake 7.1 - anything later needs too much memory to load, though it will work if you jump through hoops with another machine, the later kde is so slow it's not worth the effort. Boot from a floppy, install from the hard drive. Never bothered with the floppy, I use it so rarely. Neil ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
