Date: Fri, 17 Oct 1997 22:36:31 +0100 (BST) From: Andrew Gordon <arg@arg1.demon.co.uk> To: Warner Losh <imp@village.org> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Need source... Message-ID: <Pine.BSF.3.91.971017220750.528A-100000@server.arg.sj.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <199710171834.MAA03146@harmony.village.org>
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On Fri, 17 Oct 1997, Warner Losh wrote: > I'd like to put FreeBSD on my Libretto 50CT laptop and dual boot it > with Windows 95 (I need the latter for quicken, quickbooks and a > couple of programs for work). However, the disk drive that comes with > it is only 880M. Anybody know where I can get 8.5mm tall 2.5" IDE > drives? I've tried all the usual places, but they only have the more > standard 12.5mm tall drives, and nothing thinner. While I could fit > one of these into my machine with a dremmel tool, I'd rather not do > that given the 4 year warnatee I paid extra for... I have an IBM "Travelstar VP" 1.6 Gb drive fitted to my Libretto 50CT. This is 9mm tall, so a fraction taller than the original drive, but it does fit (it helps to loosen the case screws to give you slack to slide the drive in, but once in you can close up without any distortion to the case, and for warranty purposes if you put the original drive back and they won't be any the wiser). The IBM drive cost me GBP 161 (about USD 260), which I thought was quite reasonable for what it is. I had my brain out of gear when partitioning it, in that a straight 800Mb/800Mb split with Win95 in the first half puts the root partion starting at about cylinder 1025 and so it won't boot from booteasy; however it will boot from DOS using Fbsdboot.exe. Obviously a 750/850 split would have been more sensible if I had thought of this before spending many hours installing windows software. If keeping Win95 on the machine, it helps to save the installation disc images from C:\windows\options\cabs\*.* because a straight Win95 installation from the floppies that come with the machine won't put them back, and without them you have a complete joke with PnP and PCMCIA cards - you stick in a card and it says "now insert floppy no. 27", so you eject the card to fit the floppy drive, but since Win95 is stuck inside the card insertion event handler at this point, it won't recognize the floppy drive! I can't now remember how I got out of this mess - the solution involved putting back the old hard drive and transferring the cabs files over the network to my BSD machine, but i can't remember how I got them back again given that my network card was the first thing that prompted this. Possibly I brought back the critical one of the .cab files via floppy and put the rest back via the network later. Needless to say, installing FreeBSD was much easier than Win95.
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