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On Mon, 24 Nov 97 9:27:19 HST, you wrote: >> and all of the back-up diskettes are made. It's time to format and >> re-install this puppy to remove any extraneous crap I'll never use >> again. > >I would do this with some care. Genuine crap (like the online service stuff) >is easily tossed; apparent crap (like the PC Card director) can turn out >unexpectedly useful! (I recently used it when debugging a portable CDROM >installation. Incidentally - for the record, CMS Enhancements CDROM drives >don't appear to be compatible with the 560. Yep, I'm being careful, and made all the IBM diskettes for this even though I prefer Windows 95's card management (heresy! I know). > >> Does the file for hibernate and suspend get written properly on a >> disk using FAT32? > >You probably know this, but (a) FAT32 will slow your system down marginally, >(b) make some DOS apps not work, (c) lose you some degree of IBM support, >(d) was the single largest source of problems on alt.windows95 before the >introduction of IE4, and (e) will reclaim less space than drivespace, even >if the latter is in 'no compression' mode. Just a reminder. I wasn't aware of E, and I'm nervous enough as it is. I'll rephrase that - any known trouble using Drivespace3 then? >> pc card hard drive. Does anyone know what I'd need to copy from the >> /Cabs directory to get an install disk, aside from all the .cab files >> themselves? > >This is discussed at length in the Windows 95 FAQ; what I've done in a similar >situation is (a) had all the 'dos' stuff (from \windows\command), (b) The setup and >config files from disk 1 of the backup set you made with the factory. Speaking of OSR2, I got my Kiwi laptop back about an hour ago. They claimed to have replaced my drive because it had a bad sector. I'm suspiciously amazed, since they seem to have gone out and purchased the exact drive I used to have - a Toshiba 1926FCV. I see them around, but not a lot. I'll be running Scandisk to see if there are any bad sectors - my drive had ONE and has had it since I bought the laptop, which Kiwi didn't notice on two previous trips in. Aside from that, I had Windows A and they loaded B, without giving me any media for it - no CD-ROM, no .cab files, nada. Just changed some settings and had no source files to read from. Wonderful. They *also* forgot to send back my floppy drive. And as they've had the darn thing a MONTH, I'm constantly reaching for a trackpoint rather than the touchpad. Can't wait till I get this puppy set up as my server (trying to get a mini-network going as an experiment), and use the 560 full-time. epbrown Stop by the Portable Computing Center for reviews, editorials, and the FAQ on laptop computers. http://www.enteract.com/~epbrown Laptops: Kiwi 680TX and IBM Thinkpad 560