Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub -- 3rd Way ;-)
Date: Mon, 3 Mar 2003 13:10:49 - From: Chris Hogan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub -- 3rd Way ;-) A: I'd need the converter. B: I'd need to get the HD out of the L1, which is not trivial. C: I'd have to dig into my main system.. :( I was once in the same position -- there is another way, but probably just as many problems, and that is to make up a DOS boot floppy with drivers for a pcmcia network card then copy the XP distribution from another system. However you will need: 1. A network card that comes with DOS drivers (not so common these days) 2. A network, either at home or work, that you can log into with the disk 3. Bizarre and arcane knowledge of DOS startup files and memory management. 4. DOS pcmcia socket services and knowledge of their use. Its too long-winded to go into here, however I will happily email my floppy disk contents, all you'd need to do then is replace my netcard drivers (Xircom 10M CE II PS) with yours, and tweak the config files. To my surprise, the disk I made for my old ThinkPad worked straight away in my Libretto (which I have back, hurrah, long story for another time perhaps), and a colleague's Portege, as long as the card was in the correct slot. So although it was a bit of a slog making the disk, its paid back very well. HTH, feel free to email me off list for long and involved instructions :) Chris [EMAIL PROTECTED] ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 23:17:17 +0900 From: brett [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub you'll have to take out the HDD and copy install files to it from a desktop if you have no bootable CD or FDD. or if you have a bootable FDD you can setup the HDD as FAT32 and copy the files via FDD partition HDD C=9GB D=the rest (FAT32) RAR up a small OS like win98 copy to HDD via FDD (takes a LONG time) install that, then copy XP files to hdd in win 98 reboot from FDD and install XP from the partition NOTE: you may want to keep a small (100MB) ghost image of win 98 (for future rescue) on the D partition... from memory L1 has no real PCMCIA support in dos as far as I know (if you can get a LAN card working in dos, that will be faster) from memory L1 firewire and USB are not supported fully in dos. just my opinions... might be a better way -Brett David VanHorn wrote: Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:55:46 -0500 From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: L1 Scrub I finally had a virus get past Eudora somehow. I got a boot sector virus that tells me every time I boot that my copy of windows is illegal. So, I've scrubbed the drive, and have it booting normally with win98 sys on C:. How can I get XP installed?? I have no CDROM in the machine, only USB and Firewire ports. I tried the 6 disk boot deal from Microsoft, and all I get is a stop error after the 6th disk. Very tedious. ** 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 ** ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:46:47 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub If it is really a bootsector virus, you can boot from a floppy and type: fdisk /mbr Else you can copy win CD on your disk using DOS and a CD driver, that's 10 times quicker than copying win98 to support the CD (such things is ony 1 floppy disk). Julian David VanHorn wrote: Date: Thu, 27 Feb 2003 20:55:46 -0500 From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: L1 Scrub I finally had a virus get past Eudora somehow. I got a boot sector virus that tells me every time I boot that my copy of windows is illegal. So, I've scrubbed the drive, and have it booting normally with win98 sys on C:. How can I get XP installed?? I have no CDROM in the machine, only USB and Firewire ports. I tried the 6 disk boot deal from Microsoft, and all I get is a stop error after the 6th disk. Very tedious. ** 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 ** _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:28:20 -0500 From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub At 07:48 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:46:47 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub If it is really a bootsector virus, you can boot from a floppy and type: fdisk /mbr I used debug to write zeroes to the boot sector. It's gone :) Else you can copy win CD on your disk using DOS and a CD driver, that's 10 times quicker than copying win98 to support the CD (such things is ony 1 floppy disk). Julian Will that work for a USB CDROM? ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:57:20 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub argh USB and DOS... I don't think it'll work... [;-)] But you can still have a 1 or 2 foot floppy disk with linux kernel and some basic programs that will support your usb CD [:-)] Linux is great !! (I'm running Linux Mandrake 9 on my Lib50 32Mo RAM and 20GB HDD) Julian David VanHorn wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:28:20 -0500 From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub At 07:48 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:46:47 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub If it is really a bootsector virus, you can boot from a floppy and type: fdisk /mbr I used debug to write zeroes to the boot sector. It's gone :) Else you can copy win CD on your disk using DOS and a CD driver, that's 10 times quicker than copying win98 to support the CD (such things is ony 1 floppy disk). Julian Will that work for a USB CDROM? ** 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 ** _ GRAND JEU SMS : Pour gagner un NOKIA 7650, envoyez le mot IF au 61321 (prix d'un SMS + 0.35 euro). Un SMS vous dira si vous avez gagné. Règlement : http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/sign.sms ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:56:46 -0500 From: Lawrence Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub fdisk /mbr method is a much easier and safe way to clean up the partition sectors in a HDD. Of course, the DEBUG is a handy tool but you need to put a few lines of assembly code to call BIOS INT13 to wipe out the master boot sector. I can't believe you still remember how to do it, David. Last time I did it, I had to open my dusty DOS book:) As for boot from CD-ROM, it requires BIOS support. Not sure what is support in L1 BIOS. I'll just hook up a 2.5 to 3.5 converter and copy all the XP files from another computer to the HDD and run setup from HDD directly. - Original Message - From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Libretto [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, February 28, 2003 2:32 PM Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:28:20 -0500 From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub At 07:48 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:46:47 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub If it is really a bootsector virus, you can boot from a floppy and type: fdisk /mbr I used debug to write zeroes to the boot sector. It's gone :) Else you can copy win CD on your disk using DOS and a CD driver, that's 10 times quicker than copying win98 to support the CD (such things is ony 1 floppy disk). Julian Will that work for a USB CDROM? ** 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 ** ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:18:51 + From: barnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub On Friday 28 Feb 2003 7:58 pm, you wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:57:20 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub argh USB and DOS... I don't think it'll work... [;-)] But you can still have a 1 or 2 foot floppy disk with linux kernel and some basic programs that will support your usb CD [:-)] Linux is great !! (I'm running Linux Mandrake 9 on my Lib50 32Mo RAM and 20GB HDD) Bloody hell! I hope you're not trying to run kde on it then? The last Mandrake that was usable on the 50 (or 70) was imho 7.1 with IceWm. Neil ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:20:16 + From: barnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub On Friday 28 Feb 2003 8:01 pm, you wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:56:46 -0500 From: Lawrence Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub fdisk /mbr method is a much easier and safe way to clean up the partition sectors in a HDD. Of course, the DEBUG is a handy tool but you need to put a few lines of assembly code to call BIOS INT13 to wipe out the master boot sector. I can't believe you still remember how to do it, David. Last time I did it, I had to open my dusty DOS book:) Real men use load'n'set switches... Neil (well, hex keypads... near enough) ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:32:21 -0500 From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub Real men use load'n'set switches... BTDT.. Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Load, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Load, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Click, Shit! ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 15:33:05 -0500 From: David VanHorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub At 11:58 AM 2/28/2003 -0800, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:57:20 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub argh USB and DOS... I don't think it'll work... [;-)] But you can still have a 1 or 2 foot floppy disk with linux kernel and some basic programs that will support your usb CD [:-)] Linux is great !! (I'm running Linux Mandrake 9 on my Lib50 32Mo RAM and 20GB HDD) I would, but my cadware requires gatesware. ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 16:13:15 EST From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub In a message dated 2/28/03 1:47:26 PM Mountain Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: As for boot from CD-ROM, it requires BIOS support. Not sure what is support in L1 BIOS. I'll just hook up a 2.5 to 3.5 converter and copy all the XP files from another computer to the HDD and run setup from HDD directly. A: I'd need the converter. B: I'd need to get the HD out of the L1, which is not trivial. C: I'd have to dig into my main system.. :( Problems.. Problem A: http://www.compgeeks.com/products.asp?cat=HDD for the 2.5-3.5 adapter, it's the cheapest one I've found, but you'll have to pay for shipping. Lee ** 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] L1 Scrub
Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 22:38:26 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub KDE? Of course not!! I don't even run it on my desktop pc, I don't like it at all... I'm running Enlightenment, and I also use text terminals quite often. It's running really fine. :-) Julian barnacle wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:18:51 + From: barnacle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub On Friday 28 Feb 2003 7:58 pm, you wrote: Date: Fri, 28 Feb 2003 20:57:20 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [LIB] L1 Scrub argh USB and DOS... I don't think it'll work... [;-)] But you can still have a 1 or 2 foot floppy disk with linux kernel and some basic programs that will support your usb CD [:-)] Linux is great !! (I'm running Linux Mandrake 9 on my Lib50 32Mo RAM and 20GB HDD) Bloody hell! I hope you're not trying to run kde on it then? The last Mandrake that was usable on the 50 (or 70) was imho 7.1 with IceWm. Neil ** 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 ** _ Envie de discuter en live avec vos amis ? Télécharger MSN Messenger http://www.ifrance.com/_reloc/m la 1ère messagerie instantanée de France ** 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 **
