Date: Tue, 16 Jan 2007 09:57:38 +0100
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] 110 HD Confusion (Win98SE)
Hi Joseph:
Joseph wrote:
Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2007 23:08:53 -0700
From: "Joseph" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: 110 HD Confusion (Win98SE)
Greetings:
I want to upgrade to a Western Digital Scorpio 120GB HD, running
Win98SE, and have MS DOS 6.22 as well on a 110CT
1. Do I need a drive overlay?
You do NOT strictly NEED it, but it can make things easier.
There was a thread a month or so ago on exactly this subject.
A long answer to your question is in a posting by me:
http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto%40basiclink.com/msg16832.html
A little later, John Martin outlined how to set it all up, and some
people added useful suggestions,
*************
<OFF-TOPIC:>
*************
Pity the mailing list archives on
http://www.technoir.nu/libretto/list/
are inaccessible nowadays. Would make some very useful reading for you.
On the Wayback Machine there's a backup until the end of January 2005:
http://web.archive.org/web/20051111104934/www.technoir.org/libretto/list/
But there were other list archive somewhere.... anyone?
I found:
http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto%40basiclink.com/
(seems fairly complete at first glance)
&
http://www.mail-archive.com/libretto%40yahoogroups.com/
(but some people -like me- don't like yahoo groups)
I fear the Libretto mailing list archives might simply vanish in the
near future. Unless www.webarchive.org keeps a recent copy.
*************
</OFF-TOPIC>
*************
2. What is the steps for installing both MS DOS 6.22 and Win98SE?
To start with: have separate partitions for them. Win98 SE is based on
MS-DOS 7. You can't mix up DOS versions.
BTW: what does DOS 6.22 have that MS-DOS 7 (the base under Win9x) does
not have? I see no real advantage in having 6.22.
I have tried FDISK, Installing MS DOS 6.22, then atemping to get the
CD-Rom to be recognized to install Win, but could not see the CD-Rom.
Does DOS 6.22 support FAT32? which is what you need if you want DOS to
access any partition bigger than 2 GB.
I want to keep things as simple as possible, one partion, no overlay if
possible, etc.
120 GB in one partition?
In that case a scandisk session (which happens occasionally on Win98 &
98SE & DOS 6.22) would take quite some time, you know....
People who I think are far more knowledgeable than me (& perhaps even
you) use to advise against having just one big partition. At least a
separation between data and operating system is warranted.
And on Librettos 50-110 there is another VERY good reason that you need
at least two partitions: it is called the hibernation area problem.
Which boils down to the fact that when the Libretto hibernates through
the BIOS it writes its RAM contents to a place around 8 GB. Which would
be right in the middle of your one big partition.... And no, the
hibernation routine doesn't care what data it overwrites there. And yes,
after wake-up from hibernation you might need to re-install the entire
fandango.
FYI: BIOS hibernation is used automatically when the Lib overheats and
DOS/Win95/98/98SE/ME use it because they have no built-in hibernation
like Win2K & WinXP.
Good luck,
Philip
