Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 20:02:05 +0100 (BST) From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Reinstall OS for L50?
Quoting [EMAIL PROTECTED]: > Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 14:41:09 EDT > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [LIB] Reinstall OS for L50? > > In a message dated 7/22/2003 7:18:51 AM Mountain Daylight Time, > [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > > > > Before you decide what method to use for getting w98se on your hard > drive, > > > see if the parallel port CDROM drive is seen on boot by DOS. > > > > YES. > > > That's great - it'll make things a lot easier. > > > > > > You should experience no problems installing the Toshiba drivers > after W98 > > is > > > installed, regardless of the means. > > > > I was wondering because of an experience with a Toshiba Sattelite. > After > > installing W98, it would only boot to *Real* mode, which won't let me > > install drivers. > > > No kidding - never had that happen. Hope it doesn't repeat. > > > > > Having said all that, it may be simpler to pull the drive and do all > the > > work > > > using a 2.5" x 3.5" adapter in a desktop. You can coipy all the > Tosh > > drivers > > > that way, too. > > > > BE SURE to partition and format the HDD in the Libretto, > > > though. > > > > Does BIOS do this automatically? If not, what size partition need I > make > > (810MB HD)? > > > Not sure what you mean. Based on your info, I'd do the following: > > 1. Prepare a boot floppy using another PC running w98se. This floppy > will > load generic drivers for CDROM drives, and show you a menu (boot w/CD > support, > boot w/o CD support) on boot. > > 2. Attach your parallel port CD drive, then check that your L50 will > boot > from the W98 boot floppy. If it does, choose CD support from the menu > and see > if DOS sees your CD drive. If it does, you're ready to do the deed. > > 3. Restart the L50, choose No CD Support after booting from the floppy. > > Then run FDISK, setting up the hard drive as one large FAT32 partition > (this will > of course wipe out all your data & programs stored on the hard drive.). > Exit > FDISK when that's done and FORMAT the drive using the format C: /s > command. > The L50 will set up a hidden space for the hibernation data. > > 4. Reboot and choose CD Support. Make a directory on C: and copy the > entire > W98se CD from your parallel CD drive to that directory. > > At this point the L50 should be capable of booting from the hard drive, > and > you can run Setup from the directory where the W98 CD was copied. Once > Windows > is happy, you can install the L50 drivers that you have previously > downloaded > from the Tosh site. Don't forget that you'll need the L110 W98 floppy > driver > for the floppy to work under W98. > > > > > > > Thanks much, > > Larry > > > > Good luck. > > Lee hello it's possible that you may not have this menu item stuff. in which case if you can already access your parallel cd when you boot up. Thing to do is make a boot floppy with edit fdisk and format on it If you look at your config.sys it probably mentions something that looks like a parallel cd driver. copy that file to the floppy then your autoexec.bat probably mentions mscdex.exe or something. copy that file to the floppy copy your config.sys and autoexec.bat to the floppy and edit them so where it says the file is located somewhere on c:\ change that to a:\ but keep any numbers after the name of the file. turn on the libretto and press the escape key this will bring up the bios and you should check that the boot order is floppy then hard drive. robert is your dad's brother mick ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
