Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 21:46:57 +0800 From: Raymond <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Partitioning
At 12:07 AM 26/11/2002 -0800, you wrote:
That's generally a *bad* thing ... with older computers (especially older Compaq desktops) as well as laptops in general, you really want to do the partitioning within the target system. If you want to do it on your desktop using the converter, remember to leave an amount of space unpartitioned at the end of the hard drive equal to the size of RAM in the laptop (probably 32MB in your case) plus a buffer (I'd recommend at least 10MB) in case the system adds other stuff there.Date: Tue, 26 Nov 2002 03:05:04 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Partitioning I'm quite an amateur and doing this way, but budget forces me to compromise (and probably learn something). What I have is a 2.0 gig harddrive from a 100CT. I am going to clean format it under my desktop computer with Windows XP.
Actually it wouldn't matter. For laptops like the Libretto where you've got a bigger chance of losing the laptop than getting it hacked, I'd suggest you stick to FAT32 and use PGP Disk to encrypt any sensitive data (even my L50 was plenty fast enough to handle PGP Disk and you can get the freeware CKT build of PGP which was produced from the source code released by NAI, it has PGP Disk and doesn't have the NT/2k/XP hibernate bug, http://www.ipgpp.com/ ). The reason is that if anything stuffs up (even something as simple as a bad cluster in the wrong place or deleting a file by accident and having it missing from trash), it's a *LOT* easier to recover data from a FAT32 partition than from an NTFS one (if you're technically minded, FAT12/16/32 is based on a linked list so if you find one fragment you can trace things, NTFS is based on a modified B-tree where if you lose a node, you're pretty much gone). Plus you can recover data if your installation is botched by simply booting into DOS or Win9x (although without a FDD it's probably not so relevant). Besides, the security of NTFS is pretty much irrelevant if the adversary has your physical hard drive anyway (whereas you'd need major government type resources to break into your PGP disk assuming you chose a suitable passphrase). Oh and from what I understand, FAT32 is faster than NTFS on slower PCs anyway.I think i'm going to format it into FAT32 since NTFS would prolly take its role later under the Windows 2k installation.
Without the Libretto FDD, things might get a little tricky. You might want to sys the drive with a Win9x or DOS boot disk whilst it's in the desktop (under DOS of course) ... it's not an elegant way of doing things but it works.Anyhow, do I just format the 2.0 HD with FAT32 and throw on the i386 folder? Doesn't it need someway to bootup? I don't have a floppy drive available.
- Raymond
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