Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 20:36:29 +0200
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Dual boot W2K/W98 problems on 110
Matthew Hanson wrote:
Date: Tue, 01 May 2007 02:49:53 +
From: "Matthew Hanson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: [LIB] Dual boot W2K/W98 problems on 110
From: Philip Nienhuis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Matthew Hanson wrote:
Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2007 13:25:39 -0700 (PDT)
From: Matthew Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Dual boot W2K/W98 problems on 110
I just set up a Fujitsu 80GB HDD in my 110, and have W2K and W98SE dual
booting. But I?ve been at it for few days now, and have failed to sort
problems getting audio for Margi DVD-To-Go to play in through the Lib
speaker
in W98. I had no problems with this on my 40GB HDD.
I?d like to reformat the W98 partition and reinstall W98, but I see
there?s no
files in the root folder for W98 on my D:\ extended partition. I?m
worried
that if I reformat and reinstall W98, W2K?s boot loader my not be
able to see
the new W98 installation.
W2K is installed on a ~4GB primary partition as C: .. and W98 is
installed on a
~4GB extended partition D: after the W2K partition. There is a blank
space of
~100MB following D:, and a ~72GB E: extended data partition after that.
I see Phil?s still reading the list messages (is the server is
working), and
hope he might now how this might work.
It's not simple as you may ruin the W2K boot stuff. This is the wrong
installation order (W98 should be first, then W2K, but now you need to
do it in reverse order).
I did indeed install W98 1st onto the 2nd, extended partition. That,
because the last time I did this I installed W98 on the 1st, 'primary'
partition, and it seems I had problems when I had to reinstall W2K which
had boot files installed in the C: W98 root. Should I have installed
W98as the 1st primary again?
I do not think that that's an essential difference. Just a matter of taste.
Make sure you can somehow boot into W2K from CD-ROM. That will allow
you to (in a later stage) use the recovery console to run fixboot etc.
I never did that BTW, so others may have better ideas.
I actually just booted from a W98 boot FD, and installed W98 1st from
installation files copied earlier to the E: drive. For the W2K
installation, I ran smartdrv.exe after running the W98 boot FD, and put
it on the 1st primary drive. Perhaps I should have done a bit more
research before that. Is it imperative that I boot from a CD? (In a
PC?) Which should be on the 1st partition?
In a Lib1x0, you can't boot from CD. You must boot from floppies or hard
disk.
If that's OK, simply reformat D: and reinstall W98.
Then reinstall W2K's boot stuff by booting from the CD-ROM (using the
four floppies IRC) and then do something like repair or recovery
console . It's not that hard, I just forgot how and what exactly.
I've gone the 'recover' route before recentlyv via running winnt.exe
from file on E: in the past. CD-ROM not needed?
Not if you copy the entire \I386 directory from CD-ROM to hard disk.
Then you can install & run form hard disk. That's the way I did it, hard
disk is much faster than CD-ROM
BTW I do not read the list very often. My Lib is decommissioned, just
occasionally it's started up.
A guy at work has expressed interest in buying a 110. I'm not all that
sure that at this point it's worth it what with seemingly better
alternatives that David Chien and others have proposed.
Oh, I do not think I'll sell my Libby. I even still have my old DEC 450
SLC/e (50 MHz 486DX, 20 MB RAM, separate built-in keypad, easily
swappable hard disks, ). I simply can't separate easily from good stuff.
And yes, now I have a JVC741 MP-XP (1.1 GHz Pentium-M, wifi, 100 GB HD
(a mod), 1.2 GB RAM, ). Indeed, much better than the Libretto, and
even better (IMHO) than the Lib U100 that has a screen can't be bent
back more than 45 degrees AND has a highly reflective coating AND is too
fine to be read easily from by someone who is aged 50 now.
P.
