Date: Wed, 23 Jul 2003 09:50:06 +0100 From: "Fisher, Dave (IBM)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: [LIB] Reinstall OS for L50?
Just to mention about the Librettos hibernation, it's FANTASTIC! As long as you are partitioning the drive in DOS (or the DOS supplied with Win9x) then you don't need to worry about the hibernation partition... the machine automatically "hides" the required space from FDISK so you cannot overwrite it. I've built my Libretto 100CT to dual boot using Windows98 & Linux and that's when things start getting complicated! Even so, one of the main reasons I'm not trading in my Libby for something more powerful like a Sony U101 is because the hibernation feature on the Libby is so good! Even under Linux (Debian Woody by way of Knoppix, one of the easiest installs I've ever done!) the hibernation feature performs flawlessly! -----Original Message----- From: Lawrence Fieman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 22 July 2003 10:33 To: Libretto Subject: [LIB] Reinstall OS for L50? Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 05:28:19 -0400 From: "Lawrence Fieman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Reinstall OS for L50? After much lurking I now have an L50 with 32Mb memory and 810Mb HD. It came with Win98 (1st ed) and dblspace loaded. One of my programs runs in real DOS only, and restarts the computer in real DOS. However, because of dblspace I do not have enough available memory to run the DOS program. I have to get rid of dblspace. It seems that I need to reformat the HD and re-install an OS (WIN98 2nd ed) to get rid of dblspace and free up memory for real DOS programs. I have a backpack CD that runs off the parallel port, a CD that runs off PCMCIA, and the Toshiba PCMCIA floppy drive. I might need an IDE converter as well. Do you know of a link that describes reformatting and install of an Win98 for the L50? After reading what I could find, I still have some questions about installing the Toshiba drivers and about hibernation. If I install Win98 2nd ed from the Backpack parallel port CD to the L50 will I then have trouble installing the toshiba drivers? Is it best to use an IDE converter and install the new OS with the HD in another machine? The hibernation "feature" seems like a problem to me. I'd rather not have it. Can I just shut it off some how? If not, do I have to do something special to get it to work -- like setting up a partition for it? Thanks in Advance, Larry ************************************************************** 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 **************************************************************
