Re: BIOS hibernate on big HDD [LIB]
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:53:15 +0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: BIOS hibernate on big HDD [LIB] 1) Walk the disk with WinHex to find out where the hibernation data is actually being stored on your HD vs. partitions. Easiest if you open notepad and type in a unique text string to search on, eg Librettos are wonderful!. Unfortunately(!) I don't have WinHex. 2) Win2K after maximum partitioning may have just jumped over the BIOS end-of-8.4GB hibernation area. Don't know until you test and see. A scary thought. I would like to do this test if anyone can tell me how to do it. 3) Just because the scandisk/whatever finds the HD to be intact doesn't mean the data is. Yes, I found this - after hibernating, scandisk/whatever often declared the partition in which the hibernation data had overwritten the test data to be problem free - but the test data was thoroughly trashed, even though the file names, sizes, and all the other file details were intact. If you don't reserve the relevant space, you could well have significant data corruption and not realise it until much later. do a binary file compare of the files vs. the originals to make sure. Unfortunately I've no idea how to do a binary file compare. However, I did fill the partition with .JPGs such that zero bytes remain free, and did a crude (but I think effective?) check that way. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---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 **
Re: [LIB] [LIBRETTO] What OS for 50CT
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 02:40:50 -0600 From: Lines, Nick [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] [LIBRETTO] What OS for 50CT Many thanks for all the responses and for the warm welcome! I completely overlooked NT4, despite me being MS-certified on the platform (D'oh), so I think I'm going to spend a month experimenting with a triple boot of Mandrake 7.1 (thanks Matt), 95 and NT4 to see what suits me best. My objections to 95 are probably unfounded. It does work, but I just have had too many problems in the past, so have always used NT or Win2K. I would guess that problems may have been driver issues, but as has been pointed out the Tosh 95 drivers seem spot on. I'll have to dust down the NT4 install discs and try to find SP37 (or whatever they finally finished at), then perform the necessary incantations to ensure that I don't put a partition where the OS blats the hibernation data. To answer the question on the disc, I'm using an IBM 10GB travelstar that can be picked up for £50-ish from most on-line retailers. http://www.dabs.com was where I bought it from. My wife is beyond the bored stage and now into the annoyed. She wandered into the study to find the Libretto in bits and me looking nervous whilst wielding her nail scissors ;-). A 66MHz bus really makes a hell of a lot of difference. Shame my 50 didn't have the 120MHz underclocked processor but the difference really is noticable. I am in awe of the designers of the system board. Battery charging, SVGA, LCD controller, IDE, memory, P75, PCMCIA controller, ... in that space? Wow. Thanks again everyone. (And my apologies for another essay!) Nick. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---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 **
Re: my brain hurts [LIB]
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 16:21:52 +0700 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: my brain hurts [LIB] My brain no longer hurts as much as it did - just a dull headache remains. I don't know enough to profess complete understanding, but Neil's reasoning made sense as far as that limited understanding permits. However, if it's still of interest to anyone else:- I just booted my L110 from the FDD / Win'98 recovery diskette (Shift+F5), from cold. I just don't get it - how can C: and D: and E: see the whole 8GB, 1GB, and 20GB respectively??? No Win'2K, no fancy BIOS-enhancing software, absolutely nothing... What verisons of all software and which softwares used to create the partitions, boot, etc? - 1 - 7.77GB FAT32 - FDISK'd from DOS with Win'98 boot diskette - 2 - 78.2MB FAT32 - FDISK'd with Win'2K 5.00.2195 - 3 - remainder (20+ GB) FAT32 - FDISK'd with Win'2K 5.00.2195 Everything done in the Libretto, except for the copying of the entire I386 folder from the Win'2K CD which was done in a desktop after the first partition had been created with a Win'98 diskette in the the Libretto. What BIOS verison of the Libretto. 8.1 (from 7100tv81.exe - Ver:8.10 - Size:611,773 bytes - Posted:08/06/01 - Released:07/31/01) Which country version of the Libretto. PA1280E LX (79014674) I bought it new in Hong Kong in March 2000. It has an American keyboard. What exact HD model # do you have? Fujitsu MHN2300AT (30GB) ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---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 **
Re: [LIB] Dual / triple boot
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:10:00 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Dual / triple boot How do you do this on 110CT - I would like to have XP and W98 together. If you manually swap bootable partitions using Partition Magic, then that's all you need. Ranish Partition Manager will also work. So will XOSL. Simply make one active partition, hide the others, install OS. Then, swap active partitions, hide others, install other OSs. No problems running Win98/2000/xp on one machine that way. -- If you want boot menu, install System Commander or XOSL and follow their instructions. -- Just remember that some OSs can only boot if installed below the 8.4GB boundary on the HD. --- alternatives? ME/2000/XP/Linux with VirtualPC or VMWare workstation PC emulators. Then you can run OS within OS all day long, even having multiple OSs running at once. = adorable toshiba libretto The latest news and information for the Toshiba Libretto owner. http://www.silverace.com/libretto/ __ Do You Yahoo!? Try FREE Yahoo! Mail - the world's greatest free email! http://mail.yahoo.com/ ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---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 **
Re: [LIB] Chemicals in the post .. (USA Question)
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 20:44:40 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Chemicals in the post .. (USA Question) In a message dated 3/12/02 8:47:32 AM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hm, I didn't have to do any trimming of the 2503 case to drop the 2498 internals into it. Yes, I remember your original posts. The 3 sets of PA2498U cells that I've gotten as replacements measured significantly larger in diameter that the PA2503U cells they replaced. Although the PA2503U cases could have been made to fit, they seemed to bend around the cells in order to achieve a full seam engagement. So I relieved the high spots a little to eliminate the stress. Lee ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---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 **
[LIB] Lib 100CT / Win2000
Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 14:51:47 -0300 From: Leonardo Armesto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Lib 100CT / Win2000 Hi, I'd like to try to install Windows 2000 in my Lib 100CT with 2Gb and 64Mb RAM. Do you recommend me to do that..??? Is it posible..??? Advantages..???! thanks a lot. ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---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 **
Re: [LIB] Dual / triple boot
Date: Wed, 13 Mar 2002 06:54:13 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Dual / triple boot Date: Tue, 12 Mar 2002 15:10:00 -0800 (PST) From: David Chien [EMAIL PROTECTED] ME/2000/XP/Linux with VirtualPC or VMWare workstation PC emulators. Then you can run OS within OS all day long, even having multiple OSs running at once. Ever heard of software that emulates a Mac OS on a PC David? I don't know how many people have replied, Why would you want to do that? A perfectly valid response. But I have a teacher friend who'd like to load his Mac grading software onto his home PC so he can bring his school Mac (OLD mac at that) files from school, work on them on his PC, and free up HIS old home Mac to use as a desparately needed boat anchor. Matt _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ** http://libretto.basiclink.com - Libretto mailing list http://libretto.basiclink.com/archive - Archives http://www.picante.com/~gtaylor/portable/faq.html - FAQ ---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 **
