Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 19:45:42 -0400 From: "Tony Oresteen" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Re: [LIB] L2 and Japanese Windows
Keith, There are a couple of ways to do it. Here's how I would do it: 1. Copy the WIN98 directory from the Windows 98 SE CD on to a 128mb or 256mb CF card. It's 121 MB of files. 2. Boot the L2 using the floppy drive (I assume it has a bootable floppy) and Partition Magic 8.0 3. Create a 512mb partition at the END of the hard drive. FORMAT it FAT. Make sure the 1st partition with Japanese Windows is ACTIVE. 4. Boot Windows on the L2 and open My Computer. If you see C and D drives you can now copy the WIN98 directory files from the CF card (use a PCMCIA to CF adapter). If you don't see a second drive it's because it's marked "hidden". Win98 will see multiple primary partions on a drive IF they are marked with a status of NONE. I use System Commander to do this. 5. Re-boot Partition Magic 8.0 and now FORMAT the Japaness partition FAT 32. You will loose ALL DATA! 5. Now boot with a Win98 boot disk. At the command prompt go to the D: drive, change directoty to WIN98. Start SETUP and you are off. Other ways would be to just create a WIN98 directory on the C: drive, copy the WIN98 files, boot to a Win98 disk, delete all files except the Win98 and then run SETUP from the Win98 directory. I would get all the L2 drivers off the Toshiba site and copy them to floppy disks so you can get the hardware running that Win98 doesn't have. Good luck! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Keith Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Libretto" <libretto@basiclink.com> Sent: Monday, August 01, 2005 6:43 PM Subject: [LIB] L2 and Japanese Windows Date: Mon, 1 Aug 2005 18:57:10 -0400 From: "Keith Brown" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: L2 and Japanese Windows Hi everyone, This may be a tired topic to many of you, but I'm looking for a little help. I'm currently looking to by a L2 from someone who said the machine has Japanese Windows ME installed on it. He also said he has tried, unsuccessfully, to install an English version on it, too. The machine comes with an external CD drive, which is not a Toshiba brand and therefore cannot boot from that drive, the guy said. I am by no means a computer expert and have little knowledge or expertise in this field. But I don't read Japanese. I can barely read English. It's a good deal, this machine. I don't want to let it go just because I can't figure out how to install the software. Can anyone help? Thanks in advance, Keith. -------------------------------------- Keith Brown Reporter, Asbury Park Press (732) 643-4076 | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
