From: Vincent Poy (vince_at_mail.MCESTATE.COM)
Date: Mon May 17 1999 - 17:02:51 EDT
On Thu, 13 May 1999, Donald Mak wrote:
> IBM formats the first 2 gigs as fat 16 and that is your c: drive. The d:
> drive is the rest (12 gigs) and that is fat32.
Yep, I figured this part out.
> The reason behind this is that the recovery CD that you received must read a
> fat16 drive to install. So if you ever plan on reinstalling from the
> recovery CD then leave the C: drive as fat16. Besides there are a few older
> widow apps out there that will not work on fat 32 so it's nice to have a fat
> 16 for those occasions.
Hmmm, like which apps? I have apps from 1985 that works fine in
FAT32.
> Fat16 is also limitted to 2 gigs that's why the magic number of 2 gigs on
> the C: drive.
> Install you apps wherever you like, you have plenty of room.
> As for migrating apps from another system, do you have the apps on disk or
> are you planning on copying them and merging the registry? I think Norton
> Utilities has a feature that will help with that kind of situation but I
> found that it never works just right and the registry can suffer. Best to
> try to do a fresh install of apps and just copy over any data files.
Not all my apps are on disk. I have tried using
Norton/QUarterdeck Cleansweep Transport and it works for some apps while
it fails on some others. Some of the apps are from the internet and I no
longer have the email with my registration code on it anymore. Just out
of curiousity, does the 770Z come with any sort of Lotus SmartSuite type
software since it's not on my drive. Also, another thing is I got my
385ED and 770Z connected via 100BaseT Cross-Over Ethernet cable and it
works with NetBeui but how do I set it up for tcp/ip without a hub or
gateway address since all I have now are 10.0.0.1 and 10.0.0.2 for the
IP's without a gateway IP address defined. Also, it seems like CPUIdle
and RawPower hang the machine when starting up. Did anyone else have this
problem before? Another thing I noticed about the modem is that it
connects at 40k and then drops down to 32k for the rest of the session and
the telnet sessions are really slow. I was using the ThinkPad modem
monitor to monitor this. The 3Com/Megahertz 3CCFEM556B 10/100 LAN + 56k
X2/v90 modem card I had in my 385ED connects at 35k-40k max with the
770Z while if I plug it back into the 385ED, it is back at 45k again and
transfer rates and everything is a lot faster, anyone have any ideas how I
can fix this since I thought modems aren't hardware dependent in terms of
speed.
Cheers,
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Vincent Poy <vince_at_mail.MCESTATE.COM>
> To: <thinkpad_at_cs.utk.edu>
> Sent: Thursday, May 13, 1999 4:16 PM
> Subject: ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU
>
>
> > I just got my ThinkPad 770Z 9549-8AU and just have a question
> > regarding the HDD before I attempt to manually reinstall and clone the
> > apps and data I have on my 385ED 2635-5EU. I would like to take this time
> > to thank Bill, Joy, Randy, Donald, and anyone else I forgot for their tips
> > and advice before. Anyways, I got the 14.1GB Hard Drive model and I
> > noticed in the control panel, there is both a C and the D drive. I
> > thought everything was supposed to be on one drive level rather than two.
> > Now, my question is when I install things, what drive do I put it on or is
> > one of them really a virtual drive letter and I can just put everything on
> > C? I haven't went over 8 GB's for EIDE/SCSI drives on my Desktop under
> > Win95/98 and the big drives usually are for my FreeBSD partitions.
> >
> >
> > Cheers,
> > Vince - vince_at_MCESTATE.COM - vince_at_GAIANET.NET ________ __
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