Re: [LIB] Poll on Linux compatible modems and NICs
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 06:29:09 + From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Poll on Linux compatible modems and NICs Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 05:50:27 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Poll on Linux compatible modems and NICs Hmmm... are there cards on the list of cards supported by Linux that still need to have drivers set up? I was lucky that three of 6 cards I tested out worked immediately without having to set any drivers at all. Unfortunately 2 of the ones that failed to be recognized were the ones from my two CD-ROM drives. Every card I have worked first time in linux (with one of them taking half a day to get running in windows!) - you have my list. The Tosh CDROM works fine. I'm wondering if it possible to network the L50 running Linux to the L70 running Windows, and be able to access a CD-ROM drive there. Is that something that is possible? Yes - you'll need to set the CDROM on the 70 as a shared drive, and set up all the samba stuff on the 50. It works, but it might take some time :) The samba howto book (it's all over the web) is well worth reading before you start. I think it's by O'Reilly. (before you ask, no I haven't. I have a hard enough time making 98 work with 2k, though 2k works with 98 easily enough. Odd. Though the latest linuxes are starting to appear with a network neighbourhood app built in - M8.2 I think does) Neil _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ** 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 **
Re: [LIB] Poll on Linux compatible modems and NICs
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:43:24 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Poll on Linux compatible modems and NICs At 10:55 PM 15/05/2002 -0700, you wrote: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 05:50:27 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Poll on Linux compatible modems and NICs I see a guy on EBay has 4 Bromax cards, model EN10-T2T listed. They look cheap ennough. Will check the list of Linux support cards. But if what you say is right, it ought to be there. That or look on the Bromax website under driver downloads to see if they have a Linux driver for it. Hmmm... are there cards on the list of cards supported by Linux that still need to have drivers set up? I was lucky that three of 6 cards I tested out worked immediately without having to set any drivers at all. Unfortunately 2 of the ones that failed to be recognized were the ones from my two CD-ROM drives. Well put it this way. If the manufacturer lists it as having Linux drivers then at least you know they've gone to the effort. I'm wondering if it possible to network the L50 running Linux to the L70 running Windows, and be able to access a CD-ROM drive there. Is that something that is possible? Yup ... share out the CD-ROM drive on the Windows one then on the Linux one go mount -t smbfs -o username=username //computer name/share name /mnt/whatever you want to call it (I might have the source and destination switched there). Make sure you unmount it when you're done or weird things happen. What are you using for a modem in Linux Raymond? I'm not ... I got a Xircom Realport 56k with my L50 (the previous guy used it with the APR) but I've not used it. Even in Windows, when I'm far enough away from a network point to need to use a modem there isn't a phone line around anyway so I just use the IrDA link with my cellphone. I haven't got IrDA working under Linux yet but then again I only tried for a few minutes... I don't use Linux on the libby often enough to justify bothering. So do you connect your Lib/Linux setup to access broadband via the NIC? Or do you just access the net via your l100 (L110?) and/or desktop? Well my L50 now belongs to my sister ... my L100 only really access the internet through LAN either at work or at home and is able to do so booted into both Linux and Windows. I don't really have access to a telephone jack anywhere where there isn't already a network port so I've not needed a modem card (and where there is neither I boot into Windows and use my cellphone). - Raymond --- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup? | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~/ ** 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 **
[LIB] Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 03:28:37 -0400 From: car val [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Guys, I have a Libretto 110 with a 4 gb HD. and I'm upgrading to a Toshiba 12 gb HD. I do not want to use E-Z Drive or any another program to see the whole 12gb. What I did was to install the HD to a laptop that see the whole 12 gb, then fdisked it to 3 partitions C: (3gb) D: (2gb) and E: (6.5 gb). Then, reinstalled it the Libretto. so far it see the whole 11.5 gb, will this work OK? will I have any problem down the line? TIA carval Outgrown your current e-mail service? Get a 25MB Inbox, POP3 Access, No Ads and No Taglines with LYCOS MAIL PLUS. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus ** 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 **
Re: [LIB] Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 01:13:56 -0700 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Quoting car val [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 03:28:37 -0400 From: car val [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Guys, I have a Libretto 110 with a 4 gb HD. and I'm upgrading to a Toshiba 12 gb HD. I do not want to use E-Z Drive or any another program to see the whole 12gb. What I did was to install the HD to a laptop that see the whole 12 gb, then fdisked it to 3 partitions C: (3gb) D: (2gb) and E: (6.5 gb). Then, reinstalled it the Libretto. so far it see the whole 11.5 gb, will this work OK? will I have any problem down the line? You'll have problems when the libby hibernates as it'll blow away anything within 70 meg or so of 1024 cylinders (about 8.4GB). You'll also run into problems the moment you use any disk partitioning utility on the libby plus you'll have problems if you boot off a straight DOS boot disk. Installing and using EZ-Bios is easy and solves heaps more problems than it creates as long as you don't do anything stupid (like forget to load it then try to manipulate your partitions). I'd imagine other products such as Ontrack DiskManager would be similar. I just don't understand why people are so reluctant to use them. - Raymond ** 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 **
[LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:03:52 +0200 From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Carval, hi Raymond! I would not suggest to use a disk manager like EZ-Bios or similar things. Why dou you not use WinNT or Win2000? Both are reliable and stable, all Libretto-specific facilities (suspend+hibernation, hot PCMCIA-swap, hot dock, power management...) will work. I run WinNT on a Lib 100 and Win2000 on a Lib 110. The Lib110 with Win2000 is a bit slower than the Lib100 with WinNT, but it is more comfortable and more modern. Disk size is not a question, all 9.5mm will work without any disk manager or other obscure tricks. Here again a quick summary how to install a big HD into a Lib with WinNT or Win2000: - Make sure to have flashed the latest BIOS - Boot DOS and create one or more partitions (you will see only 8GB) - Install WinNT or Win2000 into one of the created partitions - Use WinNT or Win2000 to create one or more partitions above 8GB, but make sure to leave 71MB free after the partitions created from DOS - that's it! Gerhard Gerhard Kapusta Email home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FaxVoicebox: +4989-1488201115 ** 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 **
Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 05:51:33 -0400 From: car val [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Good Morning Gerhard, thank you, I'll try it your way. I too don't like the idea of tricking the HD, one the HD will trick you and all your data will be lost. I'll going to partitioned C: (2gb) D: (2gb) E:(4gb), I'll have Win98se on C: and Win2k on D: and E: will be for storage. So, you're saying that Win2k will see the remaining free space from 8gb to 12gb??? As for the hibernation can't I just not install it, it seem more trouble than it worth??? I can do with out it? thank you for your help carval On Thu, 16 May 2002 02:10:01 Gerhard Kapusta wrote: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:03:52 +0200 From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Carval, hi Raymond! I would not suggest to use a disk manager like EZ-Bios or similar things. Why dou you not use WinNT or Win2000? Both are reliable and stable, all Libretto-specific facilities (suspend+hibernation, hot PCMCIA-swap, hot dock, power management...) will work. I run WinNT on a Lib 100 and Win2000 on a Lib 110. The Lib110 with Win2000 is a bit slower than the Lib100 with WinNT, but it is more comfortable and more modern. Disk size is not a question, all 9.5mm will work without any disk manager or other obscure tricks. Here again a quick summary how to install a big HD into a Lib with WinNT or Win2000: - Make sure to have flashed the latest BIOS - Boot DOS and create one or more partitions (you will see only 8GB) - Install WinNT or Win2000 into one of the created partitions - Use WinNT or Win2000 to create one or more partitions above 8GB, but make sure to leave 71MB free after the partitions created from DOS - that's it! Gerhard Outgrown your current e-mail service? Get a 25MB Inbox, POP3 Access, No Ads and No Taglines with LYCOS MAIL PLUS. http://login.mail.lycos.com/brandPage.shtml?pageId=plus ** 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 **
Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 03:19:00 -0700 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Quoting Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:03:52 +0200 From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Carval, hi Raymond! I would not suggest to use a disk manager like EZ-Bios or similar things. Hmm ... I notice you've not provided any compelling reasons not to. Too many times I've had to use a DOS boot disk to rescue Win9x, WinNT or Win2k installations. Things get interesting if the system is unable to see the partition table properly (it does get mildly amusing when the bargraphs on Partition Magic go off the side of the screen and muck up the GUI's layout manager because the program can't figure out where the disk ends). Why dou you not use WinNT or Win2000? The choice of OS is based on a variety of reasons. However, there are times you don't get a choice such as when you're stuck with a boot floppy when your OS dies for instance. Besides, WinNT has problems with hot plug, tends to load more slowly because of the additional memory management involved, and is a bit harsh on memory. Win2k has all those bells and whistles that many people will never use on a device such as the L100 and its a lot harder to trim down an 2k installation if disk space is a problem. Plus at 64MB RAM multitasking is nowhere near as efficient under 2k than 9x (the better memory management in 2k only breaks even with the raw efficiency of 9x at about the 128MB to 256MB region in my experience). Granted memory protection under 9x is nonexistant so yes if you are having problems that can be traced to this then sure NT may be the way to go, at a pretty significant speed penalty. Both are reliable and stable, I dare say my laptops running Win95OSR2 and Win98SE are just as stable as the 2k and NT desktops I work with and, in my experience at least, on Pentium class computers with 64 meg RAM, Win9x runs most of the applications I've tested significantly faster than NT does (although I did do the tests on Compaq Deskpro 2000 desktops, they've got P166 processors, 64 meg RAM and ATA33 disk controllers so it is still possible to draw parallels). Conversely I've seen some pretty bad things happen under 2k especially if you use NTFS. all Libretto-specific facilities (suspend+hibernation, hot PCMCIA-swap, hot dock, power management...) will work. That may be so (although not in my experience) but still, what has this got to do with the presence or absence of an overlay anyway? Sure NT/2k don't need an overlay to see past 1024 cylinders but when things go pear shaped and you can't shove the hard drive into another computer, isn't it safer to have it on there anyway so you can recover things with a boot disk? I run WinNT on a Lib 100 and Win2000 on a Lib 110. The Lib110 with Win2000 is a bit slower than the Lib100 with WinNT, but it is more comfortable and more modern. Disk size is not a question, all 9.5mm will work without any disk manager or other obscure tricks. Umm ... what planet are we on? The drive overlay has NOTHING to do with the physical size of the disk and EVERYTHING to do with the disk capacity. I would take any advice you give on the topic with a really big grain of salt if you fail to make even THIS distinction. - Raymond ** 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 **
[LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 12:36:21 +0200 From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Carval! C with 2GB for Win89 is ok, but D with 2GB for Win2000 is not very much, if you plan to install some additional software! Consider also which filesystem you want to use: NTFS is the standard for Win2000, but you can't access it from Win98. FAT32 can be used both by Win98 and Win2000 but is is not so reliable as NTFS and has less features. In any case you will not see the partitions above 8GB from Win98. (- so why additionally Win98???, it brings again a dirty system!) You cannot avoid or switch off hibernation. There are situations, independent from the operating system, where the Libretto wants to hibernate, controlled by the BIOS (e.g. overheat, battery empty, hibernate from DOS booted from a floppy, and I'm sure there are some ohers). So it is strongly recommended to leave the neccessary space free, otherwise you risk a data loss! Gerhard Gerhard Kapusta Email home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FaxVoicebox: +4989-1488201115 ** 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 **
Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:32:13 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier At 04:10 AM 16/05/2002 -0700, you wrote: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 07:08:13 -0400 From: car val [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Raymond, My understanding about the overlays programs, they work like the old disk compression programs (DriveSpace, I forget the others?) Drive overlays are NOTHING like DriveSpace. When your computer boots, it loads basic IO routines from BIOS into RAM. Some operating systems such as DOS and Win9x (and hence any diagnostics tools you run under these operating systems) then makes calls to these routines in RAM for any basic IO operations (such as disk operations). Unfortunately, the BIOS disk control routines that comes with the libretto will only see 1024 cylinders. Drive overlays such as EZ-Bios and OnTrack DiskManager replace the drive control routines in memory with versions that will see past 1024 cylinders (hence the term 'overlay', they overlay the old drive access routines with new copies). It is able to do this by loading into the MBR and therefore loads before the OS. When you install these utilities, they take a copy of the existing MBR and once it loads its own code, it loads the old MBR and hence your OS boots. The drive overlay program itself is stored at the start of the disk (and possibly in the MBR itself). As such, it does add to the size of the 'bookkeeping' information stored at the beginning of the drive and hence will displace the partition information by a certain amount. Therefore, the overlay also loads code that will compensate for this so that any diagnostics or partition management utilities that look at the drive will know about this and take it into account. The use of drive overlays is well respected. If you've purchased any general retail aftermarket hard drive (not OEM drives) they'll have come with a drive overlay package. Western Digital actually preinstall an overlay on their retail drives. Many major diagnostics utilities such as Partition Magic, Norton Ghost and DriveImage, plus all major operating systems including all versions of Windows, Linux and BSD, will have support (and in most cases, explicit support) for major drive overlay programs such as EZ-Bios and OnTrack DiskManager. Operating systems like WinNT/2k and Linux don't need a drive overlay when running normally as these operating systems bypass certain BIOS routines such as those that access the disk. Instead of overlaying the old routines, they don't even make calls into those areas of RAM and instead access the disk directly. Were you have a 1gb HD, it would create one large database file and trick the HD into seeing 1.75gb. If, the file got corrupted you would lose everything. Nope. Nothing like that. If you were to take a disk with EZ-Bios and put it into a computer that CAN see past 1024 cylinders by itself (but not actually LOAD EZ-Bios), the computer would still be able to see the entire hard drive (however you shouldn't manipulate the partitions as the presence of the drive overlay displaces the partition info which can cause problems with some programs unless the overlay is loaded). If you only manipulate the partition table with the overlay loaded you'll be fine. So, will the hibernation install it self automaticly at the end of what the HD see?? Hibernation is a BIOS routine that is not overwritten by drive overlays for the simple reason that its Toshiba specific. As such, the hibernation routines in BIOS (and loaded into RAM such that they respond to a panic shutdown interrupt) will only see 1024 cylinders. There is no easy way around this as a perusal of the list archives will demonstrate. We've been through these topics before. - Raymond --- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup? | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~/ ** 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 **
Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 20:30:17 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier OK an addition and caveat to add ... At 04:35 AM 16/05/2002 -0700, you wrote: Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 19:32:13 +0800 From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier The drive overlay program itself is stored at the start of the disk (and possibly in the MBR itself). As such, it does add to the size of the 'bookkeeping' information stored at the beginning of the drive and hence will displace the partition information by a certain amount. Therefore, the overlay also loads code that will compensate for this so that any diagnostics or partition management utilities that look at the drive will know about this and take it into account. For anyone who's interested, http://tldp.org/HOWTO/Large-Disk-HOWTO-8.html has details on drive overlays. Yes I know it talks about Linux but the concepts hold for any OS that has to handle the problem of a BIOS that doesn't recognise 1024 cylinders without help. Nope. Nothing like that. If you were to take a disk with EZ-Bios and put it into a computer that CAN see past 1024 cylinders by itself (but not actually LOAD EZ-Bios), the computer would still be able to see the entire hard drive (however you shouldn't manipulate the partitions as the presence of the drive overlay displaces the partition info which can cause problems with some programs unless the overlay is loaded). If you only manipulate the partition table with the overlay loaded you'll be fine. I forgot to make the point that this is NOT a good idea if you're going to write anything to the disk whilst you've disabled the drive overlay even if the computer's BIOS recognises large hard drives ... you can do it but unless you *KNOW* the OS will recognise the presence of the overlay and compensate for it (in the case of EZ-Bios, a shift of all contents of sector 0 to sector 1), its NOT a good idea. I *THINK* Win2k does this translation automatically, I know more recent versions of Linux will but certainly MS-DOS and Win9x won't. I make this point merely to demonstrate that its not as if EZ-Bios wraps up the data in some file that is easily damaged (like drive compression programs do). Anything thats likely to kill a disk with EZ-Bios on it is just as likely to kill the drive if EZ-Bios wasn't on it. - Raymond --- /~\ | | Does fuzzy logic tickle?| | ___ | My HDD has no reverse. How do I backup? | | /__/ +---| | / \ a y b o t | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | | Need help? Visit #Windows98 on DALNet! | | ICQ: 31756092 | Libretto IRC channel #Libretto on DALNet! | \~/ ** 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 **
[LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 14:42:23 +0200 From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Carval! So, will the hibernation install it self automaticly at the end of what the HD see?? There is no install of hibernation. If you access the HD via BIOS (e.g. from DOS, Win9x) you will see a disk which is approx. 70MB smaller than the real size (if the disk is = 8GB). This hidden space (located at the end of the disk) is used by BIOS to store the content of the memory if hibernation is triggered. You cannot see the space above 8GB. If you access the HD without BIOS (what WinNT, Win2000 and Linux does) than you can see the complete disk and you have to take care yourself that you do not use the hibernation area. (All this is under the assumption that there is no disk manager software installed!) Gerhard Gerhard Kapusta Email home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FaxVoicebox: +4989-1488201115 ** 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 **
[LIB] Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 15:57:34 +0200 From: Gerhard Kapusta [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Libretto 110, 8gb barrier Hi Raymond! OK and how will you boot to this second installation if, say, your boot record is damaged? Or if you need to perform a drive image without another computer to put the hard drive in? The way you put it, it seems like the second installation is a Win2k or NT installation Yes. (as if it were a 9x installation you'll need a drive overlay) so if you get a virus that targets WinNT/2k system files, how will you clean it? Either way you slice it, if you're going to do ANY recovery that involves more than copying from an existing, intact file system, you'll need to have some way of seeing the whole drive. And the only way of doing that without NT/2k (which you won't have in a recovery situation) is using a drive overlay. Since years I never had the situation, that the boot record was damaged. But if that would happen, I simply install WinNT or Win2000 fresh over the second installation. The work installation is not touched by this procedure, it will be useable later by editing boot.ini. If either the second or the work installation is corrupt for any reason, I simply restore a backup by copying complete partitions with the other intstallation. (All my computers are connected via LAN) I use only WinNT/Win2000, also for recovery and backup, up to now I had no need for other operating systems (Ok, this is not fully true, sometimes I use DOS-floppys with some hardware-tools or to flash a BIOS etc.). Gerhard Gerhard Kapusta Email home: [EMAIL PROTECTED] FaxVoicebox: +4989-1488201115 ** 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 **
Re: [LIB] Poll on Linux compatible modems and NICs
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:28:52 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] Poll on Linux compatible modems and NICs From: neil barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Every card I have worked first time in linux (with one of them taking half a day to get running in windows!) - you have my list. It is nice to just plug in a card, and have it work without any messing around with drivers. I guess if you have to set up a driver in Linux as a newbie, it can be as daunting if now more so than doing it in Windows. The Tosh CDROM works fine. I'm wondering if it possible to network the L50 running Linux to the L70 running Windows, and be able to access a CD-ROM drive there. Is that something that is possible? Yes - you'll need to set the CDROM on the 70 as a shared drive, and set up all the samba stuff on the 50. It works, but it might take some time :) The samba howto book (it's all over the web) is well worth reading before you start. I think it's by O'Reilly. Great... will give it a whirl when I get a NIC for the L50. M/S _ Chat with friends online, try MSN Messenger: http://messenger.msn.com ** 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 **
[LIB] Networking CD-ROM drive with Windows in Linux
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 17:48:15 + From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Networking CD-ROM drive with Windows in Linux From: Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Matthew Hanson [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm wondering if it possible to network the L50 running Linux to the L70 running Windows, and be able to access a CD-ROM drive there. Is that something that is possible? Yup ... share out the CD-ROM drive on the Windows one then on the Linux one go mount -t smbfs -o username=username //computer name/share name /mnt/whatever you want to call it (I might have the source and destination switched there). Make sure you unmount it when you're done or weird things happen. Duly noted. Thanks Raymond. I wonder if this ReiserFS will be able to cope with the weirdness of not unmounting better than other file systems. Well my L50 now belongs to my sister ... my L100 only really access the internet through LAN either at work or at home and is able to do so booted into both Linux and Windows. I don't really have access to a telephone jack anywhere where there isn't already a network port so I've not needed a modem card (and where there is neither I boot into Windows and use my cellphone). Great! No need/use for a 56K modem for dialup. M/S _ Join the worlds largest e-mail service with MSN Hotmail. http://www.hotmail.com ** 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 **
[LIB] Win2K BIOS version
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 11:54:40 -0700 From: Tom Stangl [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Win2K BIOS version FYI, everyone, I KNOW that people told me to update to BIOS 8.10 on my L110 before installing Win2K, but I forgot to do so. It seems to be running just fine on 7.30. I'm in the process of installing 8.10 anyways, to be safe. -- | Tom Stangl, Sun ONE Internet Technical Support, Sun Microsystems | iPlanet Support - http://www.sun.com/service/support/software/iplanet/index.html | Please do not associate my personal views with my employer ** 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 **
