Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:38:12 +0100 From: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file neil barnes a écrit : Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:32:26 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Floppies have the same physical format in dos and linux though the filesystem is different usually - rawrite copies sector-for-sector so it doesn't matter what the format is. No. Linux can read write dos floppies But Linux can also use floppies with its own formats: minix, ext2 and maybe some others. And MsDOS cannot read theese ! ** 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:48:37 +0100 From: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Matthew Hanson a écrit : My ADD DDA DAD or something is kicking in here. If I boot from a floppy with rawrite, how am I going to then install from a CD with the image, if I''ve got the FDD plugged in? As said Neil, the floppy stops working once you've booted linux. No matter. you get it off, and now you can plug-in either SCSI, Network or CDROM. If you have booted with the PCMCIA image, it works! ** 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 14:32:26 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:09:02 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:23:24 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, for 7.1 there are four installation images,.. 4 image files, or 4 methods of installing images, or both? 4 image files (1.4MB) each of which expects to find the installation files in a different place. Okay... the fog has finally lifted a bit. I originally thought you were saying that four installation images were necessary in order to start to install Mandrake. Now I think I'm understanding that there are 4 installation image files, and depending on which method of installation you choose, you use the one installation image that is appropriate for that installation method. You got it. Going back to where you wrote: ..to expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer (networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices'. I guess there was a distiction between when you said there are 4 image files that will expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer (networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices', you were saying that 'pcmcia devices' was the 4th installation method. I was thinking that a net card was a pcmcia device, and was lumping them together as one method. Yes, but normally the network card is on the ISA or PCI bus, and the CD on the IDE bus. SO if you're using these, it needs the enablers running. But on the lib you (a) run out of pcmcia sockets and (b) the floppy stops working once you've booted linux. Not that it'll help me, but out of my innate curiousity (I accidently drop and broke my brother's skylight cover last year because I took it off wanting to see how it was all constructed ... I bought him a clear replacement for the broken white translucent original, and ended up brightening things up... accidents can be helpful sometimes... but obviously costly in this case) mv /dev/skylight /dev/null ? o Somehow, get the entire mandrake CD onto the drive. o Put the drive in the 50 o Rawrite the HD image and boot from it 'text' mode o Complete the installation on the 50 o Pull the drive and stuff into the 70. Sorted... Heh... except for the last step... I was thinking of keeping the HDD in the L50, and keeping the L50 instead of putting it on EBay (how can I sell her?) as a dedicated Linux system. So no problems, except that you won't be able to use the reiserfs and will be stuck with ext2 - no great worries except when it wants to do the fsck, which takes a while (but not as long as scandisk!) Was that floppy I made for the Slackware installation with rawrite on it an MS-DOS formatted disk? I can't remember. I guess so I don't think Floppies have the same physical format in dos and linux though the filesystem is different usually - rawrite copies sector-for-sector so it doesn't matter what the format is. _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 06:58:15 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Have gone through all the new messages, and am drawn back to these older ones: Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:45:39 +0100 From: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Matthew Hanson a écrit : Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 01:28:23 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file This site is talking about burning the ISO image to a CD that can ? be made bootable. I don't know about the newer Libs, but I'm pretty sure these L50s and L70s won't boot from a CD-ROM drive. They won't. But they can boot with a floppy (prepared with rawrite and an image on the CD) And then you can install from a PCMCIA CD (for instance Freecom) or a PCMCIA SCSI card and a SCSI CD or a PCMCIA network card connected to the desktop reading the CD (or the equivalent ISO file) My ADD DDA DAD or something is kicking in here. If I boot from a floppy with rawrite, how am I going to then install from a CD with the image, if I''ve got the FDD plugged in? I was thinking I could (though Neil's and others suggestion of putting the HDD in a desktop and booting it sounds like the best bet) copy the Linux boot disk over the Lib's HDD, copy CD-ROM drivers to the HDD, remove the FDD, and boot from the HDD with CD-ROM support. But wouldn't I have to format a partition on the Libs HDD for Linux in order to copy the Linux boot files and rawrite over to it? And wouldn't getting Linux drivers to operate the CD-ROM drive be a real task? Or am I just getting way off from what you were suggesting? Matt... back in the Linux mode again. _ 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 **
Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Sat, 09 Feb 2002 08:09:02 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:23:24 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Okay, for 7.1 there are four installation images,.. 4 image files, or 4 methods of installing images, or both? 4 image files (1.4MB) each of which expects to find the installation files in a different place. Okay... the fog has finally lifted a bit. I originally thought you were saying that four installation images were necessary in order to start to install Mandrake. Now I think I'm understanding that there are 4 installation image files, and depending on which method of installation you choose, you use the one installation image that is appropriate for that installation method. Going backwards (not sure if 'pcmcia devices' and neworked are referring to the same process): 4 and/or 3:I have a Xircom combo card with networking I've justgotten running in Windows. If there are drivers (and no doubt Card Service drivers) that can get networking running in DOS, I could install from a desktop from an MS-DOS partition of that will work. Not sure I understand: I think that the network installation requires the mandrake driectory to be visible over a linux network - i.e. from an existing working installation on a desktop or server. But if you have dosnetwork drivers, you could copy to a dos partition over the network and then install. Okay... let's skip this one. I sure don't have access to any Linux network. Going back to where you wrote: ..to expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer (networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices'. I guess there was a distiction between when you said there are 4 image files that will expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer (networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices', you were saying that 'pcmcia devices' was the 4th installation method. I was thinking that a net card was a pcmcia device, and was lumping them together as one method. Not that it'll help me, but out of my innate curiousity (I accidently drop and broke my brother's skylight cover last year because I took it off wanting to see how it was all constructed ... I bought him a clear replacement for the broken white translucent original, and ended up brightening things up... accidents can be helpful sometimes... but obviously costly in this case) where was I Sigmund?? Oh... I'm curious as to what a Mandrake installation via 'pcmcia devices' would be. The net card and CD-ROMs are 'pcmcia devices' aren't they? Is there something I'm missing that differentiates 'pcmcia devices' from a CD-ROM and a net card? If you can't boot from the CD, you make a boot disk with one of these and let it get on with it. OH... I was thinking you were talking about 4 different 650MB CD image files... But you're saying there are 4 1.44MB installation files you can boot off of. Lets see... can I blame my not getting this on dyslexia? I understand installing this way via having the rest of the Mandrake files on the HDD, but the other 3 options mean getting drivers set up on the FD that will drive your CD-ROM drive, network card, or 'pcmcia devices', whatever that may be... and finding and setting up Linux files without a Linux based computer sounds daunting. 2: I guess from what you wrote about a L70 crashing trying to install from its HDD, this is out... unless I decide to keep my old L50 a while longer and use it for Linux (Just hate to part with my first Libby love!) Bingo! o Somehow, get the entire mandrake CD onto the drive. o Put the drive in the 50 o Rawrite the HD image and boot from it 'text' mode o Complete the installation on the 50 o Pull the drive and stuff into the 70. Sorted... Heh... except for the last step... I was thinking of keeping the HDD in the L50, and keeping the L50 instead of putting it on EBay (how can I sell her?) as a dedicated Linux system. But is there an advantage to this method over loading Mandrake right onto the Lib via a CD-ROM running from a (small if necessary) MS-DOS partition. Well, it's an hour quicker to install on my desktop (after I've made all the selections) than on the lib :) Okay... so the process is the same... it's just that if you have a desktop with an Athlon 800MHz like mine in storage in CA, or some 1 terabyte future screamer (anyone hear about Intel working on a TERABYTE CPU they're hoping to get out in a few years!!!)... the process is way faster than on a L50 with a PI 75... I can dig that. Hmmm... yeah... I remember in installing Slackware, I had to boot from the rawrite FDD to set it up and install the files from the Windows partition. So I'm guessing Mandrake won't install from a HDD booted into MS-DOS. It will, but it needs to boot from a floppy that you make. Was that floppy I made for the Slackware installation with rawrite on it an MS-DOS formatted disk
Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 10:23:24 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:01:29 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:57:37 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm still wondering if I can just load Mandrake files onto the L70's Windows partition of the 20GB HDD, and install from there. No? Okay, for 7.1 there are four installation images,.. 4 image files, or 4 methods of installing images, or both? 4 image files (1.4MB) each of which expects to find the installation files in a different place. ..to expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer (networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices'. If you can't boot from the CD, you make a boot disk with one of these and let it get on with it. Going backwards (not sure if 'pcmcia devices' and neworked are referring to the same process): 4 and/or 3: I have a Xircom combo card with networking I've just gotten running in Windows. If there are drivers (and no doubt Card Service drivers) that can get networking running in DOS, I could install from a desktop from an MS-DOS partition of that will work. Not sure I understand: I think that the network installation requires the mandrake driectory to be visible over a linux network - i.e. from an existing working installation on a desktop or server. But if you have dos network drivers, you could copy to a dos partition over the network and then install. 2: I guess from what you wrote about a L70 crashing trying to install from its HDD, this is out... unless I decide to keep my old L50 a while longer and use it for Linux (Just hate to part with my first Libby love!) Bingo! o Somehow, get the entire mandrake CD onto the drive. o Put the drive in the 50 o Rawrite the HD image and boot from it 'text' mode o Complete the installation on the 50 o Pull the drive and stuff into the 70. Sorted... When you put the disk back into the lib, kudzu and harddrake will run, and you will be asked if you want to lose all the hardware it can't find...which of course you do. Bingo. So are you saying that kudzu and harddrake will dump all the hardware settings it found on the desktop, and then search the Lib for hardware, and make up a new list of settings? Sounds great. Works well, there's nothing on the lib it doesn't know about. But is there an advantage to this method over loading Mandrake right onto the Lib via a CD-ROM running from a (small if necessary) MS-DOS partition. Well, it's an hour quicker to install on my desktop (after I've made all the selections) than on the lib :) Or agian, won't Mandrake install from a booted MS-DOS partition. It will, see above. Hmmm... yeah... I remember in installing Slackware, I had to boot from the rawrite FDD to set it up and install the files from the Windows partition. So I'm guessing Mandrake won't install from a HDD booted into MS-DOS. It will, but it needs to boot from a floppy that you make. If there was more memory, you could use loadlin, but if you run the batch files directly, I never found a way of getting the text option, and without that, you'll get a memory error. I have *no* idea why it should take 32M to copy files, even with pretty pictures. If you have a copy of the installation disk on the fat32 partition, it's easy to us kpackage or rpm to install anything that got missed, like the pcmcia drivers. Okay... great. It won't do the PCMCIA by default on a desktop, iirc it will if you install on the laptop because it finds the enabler chipset. But even if it does, Redhat, and by extension Mandrake, have a brain dead package which installs a config file consisting of 'pcmcia=off' which you need to change before it will run. Once it's up, it's wonderful. Re-thinking what I wrote above about loading from CD-ROM or a Network card (I'm not sure if your 'pcmcia devices' was a 4th option, or what makes it different from using a network card)... It seems if I tried to I don't think that a network card is accessed in the same way if it's an ISA or PCI card, as it is if it's in a pcmcia. I'd guess 'pcmcia devices' is for CDROM - but you need the slot for the boot disk, unless...it may work if you have the expander and the second slot. Neil _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ** 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
Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 09:45:39 +0100 From: Christian Gennerat [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Matthew Hanson a écrit : Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 01:28:23 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file This site is talking about burning the ISO image to a CD that can be made bootable. I don't know about the newer Libs, but I'm pretty sure these L50s and L70s won't boot from a CD-ROM drive. They won't. But they can boot with a floppy (prepared with rawrite and an image on the CD) And the you can install from a PCMCIA CD (for instance Freecom) or a PCMCIA SCSI card and a SCSI CD or a PCMCIA network card connected to the desktop reading the CD (or the equivalent ISO file) I think I remember reading posts on loading Linux into the Lib's HDD by removing it from the Lib and connecting it to a desktop... but then you run into problems with setup between the Lib and the desktop, don't you. I'm wondering what the best way to load Mandrake onto a L7O would be. Neil was saying he could use his method with a L70, only a L50 for some unknown reason. -- The falsely dramatic drives out the truly dull. ** 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 08:57:37 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 02:36:32 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:15:13 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, if you have time for a couple or three CD's full, you can download the latest mandrake from www.mandrake.com I could do it with my sister's DSL connection. Looks like everything but v8.1 there is an ISO image. If I had a v7.1 ISO image, could I extract the files from that file on a desktop, and then move them to a Windows partition on the Lib via a network connection, and install from there. Will Mandrake let you install it to a Linux partition from files on a Windows partition like I did with Slackware? M7.1 is a bit hard to find - it bugs me that they don't keep the old ones hanging around - I did a search and found a v7.1 Beta 3 Hydrogen copy... but it looks like an early Beta. I presume I'd be looking for a standard v7.1. I wonder if a FTP search might locate a copy. I'm sure you must have gone down all those roads trying to track down a copy. This isn't something I'm going to be trying right away. I'll be taking my usual leisurely time getting ready to start the project. I've tried like mad to chase down a 7.1 installation ISO or anything - but once 7.2 and then the 8 series hit distribution, the 7.1 stuff vanished :( but the cheap cd places should have one, or I can make a copy and post to you when I get back to england (I have a slightly chopped one that came from a magazine) Don't think my Compuserve account will allow more than a 5MB file via email. Some day I need to go down to my sister's place and use her DSL to download a few things. If I can find a website or FTP server I can download it from, that would be pretty quick. I meant to snail-mail a copy of the CD - no download required. One nice thing about work is that not only do we have gigabits and gigabits of internet bandwidth, but the boys in Research are always on top of the latest releases, so they're in the cache anyway. I can usually get an ISO in twenty minutes or so, if I pick a quiet time of day :) The problems I've had are because I don't have a booting (or indeed, any) cd player for the lib, Has ANYONE gotten a 50 or 70 to boot from a CD-ROM drive? and on the 70 there's not enough memory to install from the hd, so I stuff the disk in a desktop and install it there, then let the hardware detection get rid of the unneeded bits. What was it you couldn't do with the L50 and not the L70? And if you set the Lib's HDD up in the desktop, won't it detect hardware on the desktop that's not on the Lib, and not set up the Lib hardware? I'm still wondering if I can just load Mandrake files onto the L70's Windows partition of the 20GB HDD, and install from there. No? Okay, for 7.1 there are four installation images, to expect the installation data on either CD, HD, another computer (networked) and the last one is for 'pcmcia devices'. If you can't boot from the CD, you make a boot disk with one of these and let it get on with it. If you want to load from HD, you can do this on a 50 provided you select text installation, though this doesn't let you use diskdrake to partition the disk and so you can't (easily) get a journalling file system - which I consider vital for any laptop. This doesn't work on a 70 - it crashes with a memory error. If you do it on a desktop, you can load either from the HD or boot from the CD - easier - and it will pick up all the hardware on the desktop, including the video card. What you do is to tell it the video card modes failed, and then it will let you select from a list which includes the CT65550 installed on the lib. Tell it you have that but *don't* test it, and everything will be fine. When you put the disk back into the lib, kudzu and harddrake will run, and you will be asked if you want to lose all the hardware it can't find...which of course you do. Bingo. If you have a copy of the installation disk on the fat32 partition, it's easy to us kpackage or rpm to install anything that got missed, like the pcmcia drivers. Neil _ 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 **
Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:15:08 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Clarence How did you go about installing Mandrake on your L70? first I got my hands on a laptop-to-standard ide adapter for about 5 bucks on ebay. I then installed from my cd-rom. As for the rest of the config: X run xf86cfg and click on expert screen: 120mmx90mm, default depth 16 card0: Chips Technology 65550 monitor horz.frequency 31.5, vert 60 sound run sndconfig Yamaha opl3sax2 make sure the first dma is 1 and the second is zero pcmcia go to /usr/src/linuc/pcmcia* follow the directions in the readme Setting up my pcmcia netcard took a bit of finnagling but I eventually got it to work (the 3com Megahertz card uses the 3c574_cs module, in case you were wondering). Now I am in the process of tuning my setup so that is uses less memory and runs faster than windows did. -Clarence Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:38:00 -0600 From: phillip ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Well this is what happened. I formatted the hard drive on Monday night partioned it 8meg for windows 98 fat 32 then the rest for linux.. I then I copied all the files over to the lphd and plugged it into the libby. Booted using the floppy and started the instal.. Then I got the error =( well I slapped the hd back in the desktop so I can us pqmagic and well it came back unable to format the hd. I then removed all partions and then tried it again.. No go.. Well what I then did was did a fdisk and format and tried it and still no go.. Looked and found fdisk /mbr to write a new mbr file. then pulled the case put the dard drive in the desktop no other disks besides the orig and using the desktop to load mandrake on the thing. I am loading m70 as I could not find a working m71 iso.. Anyway after I do this I will put the orig hard drive back in the desktop and boot 98 and then copy the cd to the new partion I wil create and also load pqmagicboot.. I will also try to load qnx and beos Hey a guy can play cant he? Think I did get the mbr fixed though cause it was starting to take an install before I started watching a couple dvd's and havent moved the cable back over... Need to get me kvm switch ;-) -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 12:52 AM To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 06:47:41 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:43:37 -0600 From: phillip ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dsl will take about 8 hours to down load disk one and 2 depending on network load. I have done it many times haha last night I downloaded m7 and it will mot copy from the cd to the disk to load directly from the disk.. Were you able to begin the installation from the CD-ROM to the Lib via a Windows partition Phillip? Or did you create a Linux partition, and get drivers for your CD-ROM drive to be accessed from there? Now I have a bad mbr haha will have to unlock it since fdisk wont and pm7 wont mess with it and ranish wont run on my desktop.. Did the process of trying to load Mandrake screw things up? What happened? I'll bet PM7 CAN in fact fix the problem. I worked out a whole process with thier tech support via email when I lost a partition. You do a pqmagic /partinfo, or something like that, create a partinfo file, and send it to them. They're wizards at getting things like this squared away. Maybe ill just put it in the new desktop and load linux on it.. Then load win98se.. Win98SE AFTER you put the HDD back in the Lib I hope ;-P Anyone have good luck with 98se on the 50ct with 16 meg??BTW wheres the cheepest for the 32meg upgrade? There's always Ebay... here's three now: http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResult; query=libretto+50ct+memoryht=1st=2SortProperty=MetaEndSortsrchdesc=y BasicSearch= There's also a bunch of 34MB cards for the 100/110 Libs now. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ** 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 ** _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:43:01 -0600 From: phillip ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Now I wonder if m70 will support my wifi card -Original Message- From: Clarence [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, February 06, 2002 3:27 AM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:15:08 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Clarence How did you go about installing Mandrake on your L70? first I got my hands on a laptop-to-standard ide adapter for about 5 bucks on ebay. I then installed from my cd-rom. As for the rest of the config: X run xf86cfg and click on expert screen: 120mmx90mm, default depth 16 card0: Chips Technology 65550 monitor horz.frequency 31.5, vert 60 sound run sndconfig Yamaha opl3sax2 make sure the first dma is 1 and the second is zero pcmcia go to /usr/src/linuc/pcmcia* follow the directions in the readme Setting up my pcmcia netcard took a bit of finnagling but I eventually got it to work (the 3com Megahertz card uses the 3c574_cs module, in case you were wondering). Now I am in the process of tuning my setup so that is uses less memory and runs faster than windows did. -Clarence Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.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 ** _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:14:07 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:15:08 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Clarence How did you go about installing Mandrake on your L70? first I got my hands on a laptop-to-standard ide adapter for about 5 bucks on ebay. I then installed from my cd-rom. From what Neil and others have described, this sounds the most painless process. As for the rest of the config: X run xf86cfg and click on expert screen: 120mmx90mm, default depth 16 card0: Chips Technology 65550 monitor horz.frequency 31.5, vert 60 sound run sndconfig Yamaha opl3sax2 make sure the first dma is 1 and the second is zero pcmcia go to /usr/src/linuc/pcmcia* follow the directions in the readme Setting up my pcmcia netcard took a bit of finnagling but I eventually got it to work (the 3com Megahertz card uses the 3c574_cs module, in case you were wondering). Now I am in the process of tuning my setup so that is uses less memory and runs faster than windows did. -Clarence Heh getting back into Linux again is pretty intimidating to me. The help files (read: man pages ... ugh) aren't exactly the most user-friendly (read: non-programmer) things in the world. I had a friend who lived and breathed Sun Solaris... but like a lot of people who just USE a WINDOWS machine... he was lost trying help me set up is copy of Redhat. He never did like what we got set up, because the xWindows GUI was not like what he was used to. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ** 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:21:22 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:38:00 -0600 From: phillip ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well this is what happened. I formatted the hard drive on Monday night partioned it 8meg for windows 98 fat 32 then the rest for linux.. I then I copied all the files over to the lphd and plugged it into the libby. Booted using the floppy and started the instal.. Then I got the error =( well I slapped the hd back in the desktop so I can us pqmagic and well it came back unable to format the hd. I then removed all partions and then tried it again.. No go.. Well what I then did was did a fdisk and format and tried it and still no go.. Looked and found fdisk /mbr to write a new mbr file. I was going to suggest this, but it can totally obiterate access to some partitions if it doesn't find their tables, and set them up again. When I lost a partition with PM, I ended up just resizing things (with help from the PM people), and things came back to life. then pulled the case put the dard drive in the desktop no other disks besides the orig and using the desktop to load mandrake on the thing. I am loading m70 as I could not find a working m71 iso.. Anyway after I do this I will put the orig hard drive back in the desktop and boot 98 and then copy the cd to the new partion I wil create and also load pqmagicboot.. I will also try to load qnx and beos Hey a guy can play cant he? Think I did get the mbr fixed though cause it was starting to take an install before I started watching a couple dvd's and havent moved the cable back over... Need to get me kvm switch ;-) So I guess you didn't loose any partitions, or any important ones. Is this a HDD you're using exclusively for Mandrake Phillip? Matt _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Thu, 7 Feb 2002 01:28:15 -0600 From: phillip ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file This hard drive was the one I bought from ebay.. Was fine till I messed with it haha ill get it going one of these days.. -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, February 07, 2002 1:28 AM To: Libretto Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Thu, 07 Feb 2002 07:21:22 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Wed, 6 Feb 2002 04:38:00 -0600 From: phillip ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well this is what happened. I formatted the hard drive on Monday night partioned it 8meg for windows 98 fat 32 then the rest for linux.. I then I copied all the files over to the lphd and plugged it into the libby. Booted using the floppy and started the instal.. Then I got the error =( well I slapped the hd back in the desktop so I can us pqmagic and well it came back unable to format the hd. I then removed all partions and then tried it again.. No go.. Well what I then did was did a fdisk and format and tried it and still no go.. Looked and found fdisk /mbr to write a new mbr file. I was going to suggest this, but it can totally obiterate access to some partitions if it doesn't find their tables, and set them up again. When I lost a partition with PM, I ended up just resizing things (with help from the PM people), and things came back to life. then pulled the case put the dard drive in the desktop no other disks besides the orig and using the desktop to load mandrake on the thing. I am loading m70 as I could not find a working m71 iso.. Anyway after I do this I will put the orig hard drive back in the desktop and boot 98 and then copy the cd to the new partion I wil create and also load pqmagicboot.. I will also try to load qnx and beos Hey a guy can play cant he? Think I did get the mbr fixed though cause it was starting to take an install before I started watching a couple dvd's and havent moved the cable back over... Need to get me kvm switch ;-) So I guess you didn't loose any partitions, or any important ones. Is this a HDD you're using exclusively for Mandrake Phillip? Matt _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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 ** _ Do You Yahoo!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:16:40 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file There's a version of my Xconfig somewhere in the archives, but it's for 3.6 and M7.1 You should look for the screen section near the end and change the line that says 'defaultdepth' (or something similar, it's obvious) to 16, and then in the 16bpp definition include the line 'virtual 800 600' after the screen size definition. That should give you a scrolling 16 bit screen 800*600, which is the smallest you can get away with and still see all the kde menus :) ISTR that xf86config is broken in the M8 series... Neil Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:20:42 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ct50/70 X config file I tried looking through the archives for this, but All I could find was a title... Anyways, I've installed mandrake 8 with X version 4.0.3 on my lib70ct. This version of X automatically kicks the resolution and color depth down to 640 x 480 x 256colors. Does anyone knows how to get around this and/or can show me what their XF86Config file looks like? Thanks -Clarence Get your own evilemail.com address at http://www.evilemail.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 ** _ 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 **
Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:29:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Hey guys... Can Mandrake be downloaded from the net somewhere? At some point I'd like to try setting it up on my L70. Neil, you said you had problems trying to get Mandrake going on a L70 suing one installation method. I'm sure there must be another method... yes? Matt Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:16:40 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a version of my Xconfig somewhere in the archives, but it's for 3.6 and M7.1 You should look for the screen section near the end and change the line that says 'defaultdepth' (or something similar, it's obvious) to 16, and then in the 16bpp definition include the line 'virtual 800 600' after the screen size definition. That should give you a scrolling 16 bit screen 800*600, which is the smallest you can get away with and still see all the kde menus :) ISTR that xf86config is broken in the M8 series... Neil Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:20:42 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ct50/70 X config file I tried looking through the archives for this, but All I could find was a title... Anyways, I've installed mandrake 8 with X version 4.0.3 on my lib70ct. This version of X automatically kicks the resolution and color depth down to 640 x 480 x 256colors. Does anyone knows how to get around this and/or can show me what their XF86Config file looks like? Thanks -Clarence _ 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 **
Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:41:33 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Matthew Hanson wrote: Hey guys... Can Mandrake be downloaded from the net somewhere? If you have access to a CD burner, I'd suggest http://www.linuxiso.org/ Mike ** 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:15:13 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Well, if you have time for a couple or three CD's full, you can download the latest mandrake from www.mandrake.com M7.1 is a bit hard to find - it bugs me that they don't keep the old ones hanging around - but the cheap cd places should have one, or I can make a copy and post to you when I get back to england (I have a slightly chopped one that came from a magazine) The problems I've had are because I don't have a booting (or indeed, any) cd player for the lib, and on the 70 there's not enough memory to install from the hd, so I stuff the disk in a desktop and install it there, then let the hardware detection get rid of the unneeded bits. Neil From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:37:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:29:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Hey guys... Can Mandrake be downloaded from the net somewhere? At some point I'd like to try setting it up on my L70. Neil, you said you had problems trying to get Mandrake going on a L70 suing one installation method. I'm sure there must be another method... yes? Matt Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:16:40 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a version of my Xconfig somewhere in the archives, but it's for 3.6 and M7.1 You should look for the screen section near the end and change the line that says 'defaultdepth' (or something similar, it's obvious) to 16, and then in the 16bpp definition include the line 'virtual 800 600' after the screen size definition. That should give you a scrolling 16 bit screen 800*600, which is the smallest you can get away with and still see all the kde menus :) ISTR that xf86config is broken in the M8 series... Neil Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:20:42 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ct50/70 X config file I tried looking through the archives for this, but All I could find was a title... Anyways, I've installed mandrake 8 with X version 4.0.3 on my lib70ct. This version of X automatically kicks the resolution and color depth down to 640 x 480 x 256colors. Does anyone knows how to get around this and/or can show me what their XF86Config file looks like? Thanks -Clarence _ Join the world?s 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 ** _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 01:28:23 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 18:41:33 -0500 (EST) From: Michael Miller [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 5 Feb 2002, Matthew Hanson wrote: Hey guys... Can Mandrake be downloaded from the net somewhere? If you have access to a CD burner, I'd suggest http://www.linuxiso.org/ Mike This site is talking about burning the ISO image to a CD that can be made bootable. I don't know about the newer Libs, but I'm pretty sure these L50s and L70s won't boot from a CD-ROM drive. I think I remember reading posts on loading Linux into the Lib's HDD by removing it from the Lib and connecting it to a desktop... but then you run into problems with setup between the Lib and the desktop, don't you. I'm wondering what the best way to load Mandrake onto a L7O would be. Neil was saying he could use his method with a L70, only a L50 for some unknown reason. Matt _ Send and receive Hotmail on your mobile device: http://mobile.msn.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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 02:36:32 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:15:13 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, if you have time for a couple or three CD's full, you can download the latest mandrake from www.mandrake.com I could do it with my sister's DSL connection. Looks like everything but v8.1 there is an ISO image. If I had a v7.1 ISO image, could I extract the files from that file on a desktop, and then move them to a Windows partition on the Lib via a network connection, and install from there. Will Mandrake let you install it to a Linux partition from files on a Windows partition like I did with Slackware? M7.1 is a bit hard to find - it bugs me that they don't keep the old ones hanging around - I did a search and found a v7.1 Beta 3 Hydrogen copy... but it looks like an early Beta. I presume I'd be looking for a standard v7.1. I wonder if a FTP search might locate a copy. I'm sure you must have gone down all those roads trying to track down a copy. This isn't something I'm going to be trying right away. I'll be taking my usual leisurely time getting ready to start the project. but the cheap cd places should have one, or I can make a copy and post to you when I get back to england (I have a slightly chopped one that came from a magazine) Don't think my Compuserve account will allow more than a 5MB file via email. Some day I need to go down to my sister's place and use her DSL to download a few things. If I can find a website or FTP server I can download it from, that would be pretty quick. The problems I've had are because I don't have a booting (or indeed, any) cd player for the lib, Has ANYONE gotten a 50 or 70 to boot from a CD-ROM drive? and on the 70 there's not enough memory to install from the hd, so I stuff the disk in a desktop and install it there, then let the hardware detection get rid of the unneeded bits. What was it you couldn't do with the L50 and not the L70? And if you set the Lib's HDD up in the desktop, won't it detect hardware on the desktop that's not on the Lib, and not set up the Lib hardware? I'm still wondering if I can just load Mandrake files onto the L70's Windows partition of the 20GB HDD, and install from there. No? Matt From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:37:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:29:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Hey guys... Can Mandrake be downloaded from the net somewhere? At some point I'd like to try setting it up on my L70. Neil, you said you had problems trying to get Mandrake going on a L70 suing one installation method. I'm sure there must be another method... yes? Matt Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:16:40 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a version of my Xconfig somewhere in the archives, but it's for 3.6 and M7.1 You should look for the screen section near the end and change the line that says 'defaultdepth' (or something similar, it's obvious) to 16, and then in the 16bpp definition include the line 'virtual 800 600' after the screen size definition. That should give you a scrolling 16 bit screen 800*600, which is the smallest you can get away with and still see all the kde menus :) ISTR that xf86config is broken in the M8 series... Neil Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:20:42 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ct50/70 X config file I tried looking through the archives for this, but All I could find was a title... Anyways, I've installed mandrake 8 with X version 4.0.3 on my lib70ct. This version of X automatically kicks the resolution and color depth down to 640 x 480 x 256colors. Does anyone knows how to get around this and/or can show me what their XF86Config file looks like? Thanks -Clarence _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ** 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 02:42:53 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:20:42 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] I tried looking through the archives for this, but All I could find was a title... Anyways, I've installed mandrake 8 with X version 4.0.3 on my lib70ct. This version of X automatically kicks the resolution and color depth down to 640 x 480 x 256colors. Does anyone knows how to get around this and/or can show me what their XF86Config file looks like? Thanks -Clarence Clarence How did you go about installing Mandrake on your L70? Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ** 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] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:43:37 -0600 From: phillip ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Dsl will take about 8 hours to down load disk one and 2 depending on network load. I have done it many times haha last night I downloaded m7 and it will mot copy from the cd to the disk to load directly from the disk.. Not I have a bad mbr haha will have to unlock it since fdisk wont and pm7 wont mess with it and ranish wont run on my desktop.. Maybe ill just put it in the new desktop and load linux on it.. Then load win98se.. Anyone have good luck with 98se on the 50ct with 16 meg??BTW wheres the cheepest for the 32meg upgrade? -Original Message- From: Matthew Hanson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, February 05, 2002 8:42 PM To: Libretto Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 02:36:32 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 23:15:13 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Well, if you have time for a couple or three CD's full, you can download the latest mandrake from www.mandrake.com I could do it with my sister's DSL connection. Looks like everything but v8.1 there is an ISO image. If I had a v7.1 ISO image, could I extract the files from that file on a desktop, and then move them to a Windows partition on the Lib via a network connection, and install from there. Will Mandrake let you install it to a Linux partition from files on a Windows partition like I did with Slackware? M7.1 is a bit hard to find - it bugs me that they don't keep the old ones hanging around - I did a search and found a v7.1 Beta 3 Hydrogen copy... but it looks like an early Beta. I presume I'd be looking for a standard v7.1. I wonder if a FTP search might locate a copy. I'm sure you must have gone down all those roads trying to track down a copy. This isn't something I'm going to be trying right away. I'll be taking my usual leisurely time getting ready to start the project. but the cheap cd places should have one, or I can make a copy and post to you when I get back to england (I have a slightly chopped one that came from a magazine) Don't think my Compuserve account will allow more than a 5MB file via email. Some day I need to go down to my sister's place and use her DSL to download a few things. If I can find a website or FTP server I can download it from, that would be pretty quick. The problems I've had are because I don't have a booting (or indeed, any) cd player for the lib, Has ANYONE gotten a 50 or 70 to boot from a CD-ROM drive? and on the 70 there's not enough memory to install from the hd, so I stuff the disk in a desktop and install it there, then let the hardware detection get rid of the unneeded bits. What was it you couldn't do with the L50 and not the L70? And if you set the Lib's HDD up in the desktop, won't it detect hardware on the desktop that's not on the Lib, and not set up the Lib hardware? I'm still wondering if I can just load Mandrake files onto the L70's Windows partition of the 20GB HDD, and install from there. No? Matt From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 11:37:03 -0800 Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 19:29:54 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Hey guys... Can Mandrake be downloaded from the net somewhere? At some point I'd like to try setting it up on my L70. Neil, you said you had problems trying to get Mandrake going on a L70 suing one installation method. I'm sure there must be another method... yes? Matt Date: Tue, 05 Feb 2002 10:16:40 From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] There's a version of my Xconfig somewhere in the archives, but it's for 3.6 and M7.1 You should look for the screen section near the end and change the line that says 'defaultdepth' (or something similar, it's obvious) to 16, and then in the 16bpp definition include the line 'virtual 800 600' after the screen size definition. That should give you a scrolling 16 bit screen 800*600, which is the smallest you can get away with and still see all the kde menus :) ISTR that xf86config is broken in the M8 series... Neil Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2002 18:20:42 -0500 From: Clarence [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: ct50/70 X config file I tried looking through the archives for this, but All I could find was a title... Anyways, I've installed mandrake 8 with X version 4.0.3 on my lib70ct. This version of X automatically kicks the resolution and color depth down to 640 x 480 x 256colors. Does anyone knows how to get around this and/or can show me what their XF86Config file looks like? Thanks -Clarence _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp
RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file
Date: Wed, 06 Feb 2002 06:47:41 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [LIB] ct50/70 X config file Date: Tue, 5 Feb 2002 20:43:37 -0600 From: phillip ramirez [EMAIL PROTECTED] Dsl will take about 8 hours to down load disk one and 2 depending on network load. I have done it many times haha last night I downloaded m7 and it will mot copy from the cd to the disk to load directly from the disk.. Were you able to begin the installation from the CD-ROM to the Lib via a Windows partition Phillip? Or did you create a Linux partition, and get drivers for your CD-ROM drive to be accessed from there? Now I have a bad mbr haha will have to unlock it since fdisk wont and pm7 wont mess with it and ranish wont run on my desktop.. Did the process of trying to load Mandrake screw things up? What happened? I'll bet PM7 CAN in fact fix the problem. I worked out a whole process with thier tech support via email when I lost a partition. You do a pqmagic /partinfo, or something like that, create a partinfo file, and send it to them. They're wizards at getting things like this squared away. Maybe ill just put it in the new desktop and load linux on it.. Then load win98se.. Win98SE AFTER you put the HDD back in the Lib I hope ;-P Anyone have good luck with 98se on the 50ct with 16 meg??BTW wheres the cheepest for the 32meg upgrade? There's always Ebay... here's three now: http://search-desc.ebay.com/search/search.dll?MfcISAPICommand=GetResultquery=libretto+50ct+memoryht=1st=2SortProperty=MetaEndSortsrchdesc=yBasicSearch= There's also a bunch of 34MB cards for the 100/110 Libs now. Matt _ Get your FREE download of MSN Explorer at http://explorer.msn.com/intl.asp. ** 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 **
