Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:16:28 -0400
From: E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Scratch it, guys. I've got a new Sony PCMCIA CD-ROM drive that RH7.1
recognizes! Sweet!
The install is going nice as we speak.
Thanks for your help. I'd still like to be able to do an install from a
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:57:23 -0400
From: Brian Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Unsubscribe Confirmation (M010928053323)
Original Message Follows
From: William England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Request for
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 19:54:31 +
From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: H RE: UNSUBSCRIBE from Libretto Digest?
From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Back in the U.K. now Neil?
Yes, heading to Paris again next week, then New York in a couple of weeks
if
things go as planned.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:00:00 -0700
From: Jason Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Not only does case matter, I don't know about the 7.1 installer, but
previous versions asked for the directory that *contains* the redhat
directory, iirc. And when you specify a partition, wouldn't you
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:11:47 -0400
From: E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Yeah, case is not an issue. I'm careful about that. I don't think it needed
more of a device name because I got a different result when I mispelled a
directory name--indicating that it was finding my
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:19:15 +
From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Key commands and impedance
Will get back to you, Raymond as all later tonight on all this Neil.
Thought I'd find just a couple posts today, but it's busy!
Let me quickly say that my 50ct sounds DYNAMITE
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 17:27:37 -0300
From: Damian D'Onia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
The RH7.1 Instalation Manual
(http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-7.1-Manual/install-guide/) is
clear:
Identify Disk Partition to Install From
Note
Hard drive installations now require
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 13:31:17 -0700
From: Jason Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
In my opinion, the easiest (and best) installation a machine like a Libretto
is a net install (over your local network). I just used an FTP server here
on my desktop to serve the files over 100BT to my
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 20:48:21 +
From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Key commands and impedance
From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Go into BIOS and set display to simultaneous and forget about it
Yeah Pres! A simple and elegant BIOS fix that eliminates the need to ever
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:53:14 +0200
From: Robbert J. van Herksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Key commands and impedance
Hey Neil,
As I noticed you talking about screen resolution:
the snag is that the external display can have a different window size in
int/ext mode (you probably want an
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:53:16 +0200
From: Robbert J. van Herksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Got it1!
What is this Reiser FS?
Izzit faster of better??
Robbert
-Original Message-
From: neil barnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 09:48
To: Libretto
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:41:32 -0400
From: E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Yep, that's explicit.
-e.
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From: Damian D'Onia [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001 4:36 PM
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Date: Fri,
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:42:30 -0400
From: E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Yeah, but I've had trouble in the past with PCMCIA network cards--mostly
because at one point I only had one PCMCIA NIC and it was off-brand.
-e.
- Original Message -
From: Jason Kim [EMAIL
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 22:59:59 +0200
From: Robbert J. van Herksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Got it1!
??
It will ask if you want to do any partitioning, and I let RH do that for me.
There's no need to install the WHOLE cd contents, just stick to the
directories that I mentioned in my
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 15:58:53 -0500
From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Key commands and impedance
I'll check around. I thought a $20 Sony amplified set would be pretty
good, but then you just don't know until you hook them up. I destroyed
the plasic package knifing every
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:02:56 -0700
From: Jason Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
The reiserfs is an alternate filesystem to the standard ext2. It's faster,
and more importantly, it's a journaling file system. There are two big
reasons why I believe it's better for the Libretto (and
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 14:08:13 -0700
From: Jason Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Really? I have three cheap ones (3Com, Xircom, Linksys) and each of them are
well-supported by Linux (3c589, xirc2ps, and tulip, respectively). There are
many other chipsets that don't work too well,
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:44:08 +0200
From: Robbert J. van Herksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Got it1!
Congrats!!!
Let us know if you get RH7.1 up an running on your Librtto CT-70 (or do you
have a 50 there?)
Robbert
-Original Message-
From: E. Smith [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:59:37 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homebrew battery packs
Hi Pres,
I had a 50 and never got more than 40-50 mins on the standard battery, but
the extended gave almost 3 hours! Twice the milliamp-hour rating yet more
than 2x the life has to do with
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 14:05:15 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homebrew battery packs
Why would you want 12v to run it when you have the 15v supply?
Bleh ... OK I just realized I was being a bit ambiguous ... when I said 'pack' by
itself I was referring to a battery pack
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:39:38
From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unsolicited, sappy, Lib list testimonial
Date: Thu, 27 Sep 2001 15:40:16 -0500
From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Unsolicited, sappy, Lib list testimonial
. Oh, and you'll get good at swearing too
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:42:39
From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Noting my earlier comments regarding finding out why Mandrake 7.1 doesn't
load on a 70 when it does on a 50...er...I didn't find out.
I decided that I wanted the Reiser file system, which isn't available
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:47:09
From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: H RE: UNSUBSCRIBE from Libretto Digest?
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 03:55:35 +
From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: H RE: UNSUBSCRIBE from Libretto Digest?
From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 07:54:43
From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Key commands and impedance
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 04:15:30 +
From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Key commands and impedance
Two questions for anyone who might help:
1. Is there a key combination
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:33:44 +0200
From: Robbert J. van Herksen [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Key commands and impedance
About the speakers and it's impedance:
It doesn't make much sense to take an ohmmeter and measure the resistance of
the speakers.
The 8 or 4 Ohm values that we always
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 16:55:02 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Key commands and impedance
It doesn't make much sense to take an ohmmeter and measure the resistance of
the speakers.
The 8 or 4 Ohm values that we always talk about is Impedance, which means
that it's the
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 10:20:57 +0100
From: David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Mildly OT : C1 mailing list (was Re: Unsolicited, sappy, Lib list testimonial)
Eiren K. Smith writes:
I own two overclocked L50s and a Sony Picturebook C1VPK. I like my Picturebook a
lot, but boy, the lack
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 08:53:51 -0400
From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Key commands and impedance
I might as well ask a question of my own to make this post worthwhile.
Does anyone know if there is any way to emulate the numeric keypad and other
extended keys on the Libretto
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:16:14 -0400
From: Brian Levy [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Confirmation (M010927075821)
Original Message Follows
From: S1476 A [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Request for Unsubscribe Confirmation
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:53:56 -0400
From: Eiren K. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
That's a good start, Robbert. But I still get stuck when it asks me to
select a partition to install from. It seems to expect an ISO image and I've
only got files copied from the CD--not exactly an
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 09:05:04 -0500
From: William England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Request for Unsubscribe Confirmation (M010928053323)
Original Message Follows
From: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Reply-To: Libretto Digest [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: William England [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:44:24 -0300
From: "Damian D'Onia" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Eiren,
RH71's
instalation from disk requieres a copy of ISO files into a directory (see
chapter 5 of the instalation manual from RedHat).
If you
don't have the ISO's, try this. You can create
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:29:53 -0400
From: Eiren K. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Thanks, Jason. I've been trying that, but no joy. Is there a cylinder limit
past which it will not look for the copied files? My D: partition (where
I've copied the CD files) follows a ~4GB C:
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:48:09 -0400
From: Eiren K. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Mildly OT : C1 mailing list (was Re: Unsolicited, sappy, Lib list
testimonial)
Thanks, David.
-e.
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From: David Gardner [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent:
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:03:14 -0500
From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
At 09:43 AM 9/28/01 -0700, Eiren K. Smith wrote:
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 12:29:53 -0400
From: Eiren K. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Thanks, Jason. I've been trying that, but no joy.
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:40:55 -0400
From: E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Yeah, mine was a real no-name (can't remenber the name right now).
-e.
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From: Jason Kim [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Friday, September 28, 2001
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:40:07 -0400
From: E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Yep, running and X loaded (in the last few seconds) with Gnome. All whatever
default versions were on the RH7.1 distro--I didn't modify anything there.
I LOVE my (compatible!) Sony CD-ROM drive. What a
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 18:42:39 -0400
From: E. Smith [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Got it1!
Thanks, Robbert, but I'm now past that because my new CD-ROM drive did the
trick (mentioned in some other posts today). Now my problems are X-related.
Here we go...
However, as far as those problem
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 21:16:44 -0400
From: Lou S [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Which cell phone?
Which cell phone would be best suited to use w/a 50CT to connect to the Net
(if that's possible)? I have Verizon Wireless at the moment, any cell phone
chosen must work on their system. - Louis
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:33:41 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which cell phone?
Which cell phone would be best suited to use w/a 50CT to connect to the Net (if
that's possible)? I have Verizon Wireless at the moment, any cell phone chosen must
work on their system. -
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:35:21 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which cell phone?
Which cell phone would be best suited to use w/a 50CT to connect to the Net (if
that's possible)? I have Verizon Wireless at the moment, any cell phone chosen must
work on their system. -
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:42:26 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: Key commands and impedance
I was really happy to learn about this, as i can see only 25 percent of
what's on the GNOME desktop.
i tried the key combination, but it didn't change a thing.
I'm not that familiar
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 10:59:35 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Which cell phone?
Well I can't say for Verizon because I'm in Australia and using the Telstra network
but I'm using a Nokia 8210 with very great success with my Libretto 50CT running
Win95 ... just installed
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:22:38 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Homebrew battery packs
Hi all!
Anyone here tried building an external battery pack for their Libretto (like
www.fixup.net/tips/battery/battery.html ) but using NiMH batteries (10 of them)
instead of the sealed lead
Date: Fri, 28 Sep 2001 23:12:42 -0500
From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homebrew battery packs
At 08:31 PM 9/28/01 -0700, Raymond wrote:
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 11:22:38 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Homebrew battery packs
Hi all!
Anyone here tried building an
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 12:42:16 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homebrew battery packs
That would be a bad idea. Lead Acid cells drop to zero current at full charge.
Nicads and NIMH's increase current at full charge.
Not that you couldn't run it from NIMH, but the lib's
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 00:05:04 -0500
From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homebrew battery packs
Hmm ... could you recommend a webpage or book which would have a suitable
circuit or a suitable discussion on how to build a simple circuit that
would allow me to charge the pack
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 13:16:42 +0800
From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homebrew battery packs
Hi Dave,
How many cells are you running?
I wouldn't put much more into it than the 10.8V of a full charged Li-Ion pack, at
least not in through the battery terminals.
Its a proper 10 cell
Date: Sat, 29 Sep 2001 01:25:12 -0400
From: Pres Waterman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Re: Homebrew battery packs
What sort of battery life do you people with 50CTs get with new battery
packs? I know the pack is rated at 1.2AH but my Libretto 50CT is second
hand - the battery pack is already
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