Date: Sat, 22 May 2004 13:40:40 +0200 From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] Catch 22 ?? - Please Advise - Floppy/CD Usage - OS/HD Upgrade
Mark Srebnik wrote: : <snip> : > Floppy Drive doesn't work on one of the Librettos. Looks like > floppy drive drive files are missing! When you put the floppycard in a PCMCIA slot, put a bootable DOS floppy inside and boot, the system should boot from the floppy. From then on you can access the HD. If not, check that in the BIOS setup the booting sequence is FDD->HDD: Power on, hold the Esc key, if needed type in the supervisor password & press F1 key. (If you got no supervisor password, ask previous owner and/or search the archive for links to the parallel port HW dongle which allows to clear to password.) If you still can't boot from PCMCIA floppy drive, your floppy drive and/or PCMCIA hardware is broken. (A little background: the Lib100/110 hardware (i.e., 16 bit BIOS routines) sees the floppy as an integral part of the system if it is attached while booting. Win98 and up, and many other, non-M$ operating systems, take PCMCIA over from the BIOS after a while during their booting stage; DOS and Win95 do not.) > So how do I install the floppy drive driver when the floppy drive doesn't > work and I don't have a CD-ROM drive working either, since I can't use > floppy drive....???? > > Feels like a Catch 22 situation... Put the floppy drive in and try to _boot_ from it. See above. > Meanwhile, I did test the floppy drive on the other Libretto and it works > fine.... That would imply that the floppy drive is OK. Hopefully the other Lib can boot from it. If not, the PCMCIA hardware is broken. Only option left then is to put the HD in another PC, proceed as outlined below, put HD back in Lib and from then on interchange files through networking or parallel port CD/Zip drive. : <snip> : > Since as of now, I do not have any original Toshiba floppy disks or CD's I'm > wondering if that creates any issues for doing this. Hopefully, I'll be > receiving some disks or CD's from the guy I bought from, but who knows.... > > So my question is can I: > > Option A) Do a clean install of the new OS on a new hard drive (without any > Toshiba Libretto floppies or CD's)? Put the HD in a desktop (thru a 3.5" to 2.5" converter) and => *just _copy_ all installation files* <= to somewhere on the HD - do not install the OS in another PC! Windows 9x : <CDROM>:\Win9x Win2K: <CDROM>:\I386 > Option B) Make an image of the current hard drive and then install it onto > the new hard drive and then upgrade > OS over old OS? It is always better to install anew. Heaven knows what stuff the previous owner has put/left on it.... Philip ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
