Date: Sat, 15 Oct 2005 18:58:19 +0000
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: RE: [LIB] Libretto 70CT - Replacment hard drive?
From: "Jon DuQueno" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
I've been looking on www.silverace.com/libretto/ and think I know how I can
get it up and running:
1) Get HD and connect to desktop via 3.5" adapter
2) Format 8GB(max) primary Fat32(?) partition leaving 32MB(?) for
hibernation data.
Without testing for the exact cylinders on your particular HDD where the
Libby hibernates, you may be safer making a 100MB partition. Otherwise look
in the archives and find David's method of using a hex editor and
hibernating the system with an open Notepad document to find where the text
in the document is located.
3) Copy Win98se cd-rom data & other software to HD using desktop (don't
have
cd-rom drive for libretto so guess this is quickest/easiest way?).
Yes
4) Install drive in Libretto
5) Boot from DOS 6.22 boot disk and run win98se setup.exe.
6) Install libretto drivers, tools and utilities
7) Install and play Doom
Please correct me if any of this is wrong.
Sounds good.
Questions:
1) Laplink cable - Is this just a serial cable and some software? Can I use
this to transfer win98se to libretto HD even if no OS is installed?
You need what's called a 'null modem' cable. As I recall it enabled
bi-directional data transfer. You could try a conventional cable 1st
though, and maybe itll go the one direction(?). You'll need a DOS copy of
LapLink with the system booted to DOS, or an old free copy of File Maven
that I can recommend. I have a copy if you can't find it anywhere else.
2) I found a PCMCIA Xercon network card, can I use this to connect to my
LAN. Do I need to install win98se and drivers first for it to work.
If it's the combo CEM56-100 that I have, it may conflict with the Libretto
power saving driver, and freeze the system at boot. I got around that by
just leaving the card unplugged, and then plugging it in once Windows boots.
3) Is it possible to use a wireless network card with the libretto 70. This
would be pretty cool.
There's been a lot of posts on that question recently, and no solid answers
yet. One person posted saying he had a Belkin Wireless card adapter F506020
ver.2 wireless card working, though it was never confirmed.
But you have to get a non-cardbus card, as the bus in the 50/70s is only 16
bit. Cardbus requires the 32 bit bus of the 100/110s.
See my post on these points, and Raymond's method of spotting a cardbus card
here:
http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/2005/msg01072.html
4) Which OS will run fastest 95, 98se or 2000. Since it's 32MB & 120Mhz
this
could be an issue. Can I dual boot 98se and 2000 if I get big enough HD?
95 may run incrementally faster than 98SE, but I've had 98SE installed for
5-6 years on my 70 and the 16MB upgrade to 32MB RAM. Aside from my ability
to push MP3 programs & plugins to the point of crashing it a lot, it runs
pretty quickly. A 70 won't handle W2000 though. You need a 110 for that.
Dual booting... yes indeed. No problem.
5) What about the 8.4GB limit, do I need to install EZ-Drive?
There been a lot of conflicts of opinions on that. You need 98SE though, as
W98 and W95 wont deal with it. Most people haven't had problems going
without drive overlay when installing 98SE, but I had all kinds of file
system issues that we thrashed out for weeks, and never resolved. It was
when I was dual booting 98SE and W2000 on my short lived 110 motherboard
where I had file system conflicts running Scandisk in W98SE and Chkdisk in
W2000 on the same data partitions that I could only resolve with EZ-BIOS
installed.
6) Will I need to do a bios update? If so how?
It wouldn't hurt, but the fixes were so minimal that it probably won't make
any difference.
7) What can I use it for other than Doom?
Wirelessly browsing internet?
See above
Playing MP3's from desktop on LAN
Yes
what's the audio line-out quality like?
Crappy into a set of good headphones. Not too bad plugged into an average
consumer level hifi system. If you can find an old audio PC card, it would
improve things, but they're pretty hard to find. Maybe watch EBay for the
TDK card that David and I got on EBay last year. Ive been aching to get an
Echo Indigo audio card like John M. got that requires W2000 and a 110 Libby.
I've edited graphics with Photoshop v4.0 on my 70, audio with an old copy of
Soundforge & WaveLab, run Delorme SteetAtlas in the car with a cheap Garmin
eMap GPS connected externally to provide moving map generated routes on the
lib screen, MP3 extraction, playback and tagging, playing DVDs converted to
workable mpeg files, etc.
Matt
Wanted: 110 motherboard or bare bones 110 system
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