Date: Sat, 29 Mar 2003 16:08:55 +0000 (GMT/BST) From: Digby Tarvin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] First problems to solve (100CT & Win98SE)
> My first question: how is it necessary (or just convenient) to > fdisk the 10 Go IBM Travelstar I plan to use? I have read some > texts about some free space necessary, and may be two partitions > will be more easy to manage if any problem occurs? > Same question if I continue to use the original 2 Go hard disk. The easy option would be to to fdisk the drive in the libretto, which will only give you 8GB, but other than losing the last 2GB everything will work normally. Without a floppy you will have to bootstrap this process by putting a small bootable partition on the HD and booting off it to do the fdisk. After that, install the disk on your other machine and install. If you want to access the whole disk, you have to leave about 100MB unused at the end of the 8GB boundry for suspend. My preferred method is to partition the 8GB on the Libretto as before and then make it suspend to find out what part of the disk is written to. Then re-partition on another machine to add the missing space to a new partition after the hibernation area. You can probably search the archives to find other peoples measurements if you don't want to do that, but it is risky unless you find somone with an identical drive. I use Unix, which has partitioning tools to let me do this fairly easily. I don't know much about the windows world, but I would guess you will need some third party tool to do it. I'll let someone else commment on that. > My second question: how can I improve the monitor settings? > At this time, I cannot get better than 640x480 and 16 colors, > with two large black vertical unused stripes on each side. > I had no success trying to install the vide 100 driver found at > http://www.amherst.co.uk/libfiles.htm That seems to be a question of downloading and sucessfully installing the correct Libretto 100 video driver for your version of windows. If you don't get 800x480 as one of the options in the monitor setup screen in the control panel, then the driver is not installed properly. >From what I recall, there is a different driver for each different version of windows (95, 98, NT...) I'll let a Windows person comment on what might have gone wrong there for you. Regards, DigbyT -- Digby R. S. Tarvin [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.cthulhu.dircon.co.uk ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
