About Musashi -- Mark's Real Dark Side Computer

Bullwinkle
To celebrate attaining MCSE certification, I decided to buy myself a small present. That present turned out to be a Toshiba Libretto 60CT that I bought used. The first thing I did was get rid of Windows 95 and installed Windows NT. This page provides a brief description of my latest toy, named Musashi after the Pokemon character. At some point in the near future, I plan to turn Ratbert into a bilingual Windows 95 computer for my daughters and wife to use.

Hardware

Laptop: Toshiba Libretto 60CT
CPU: Intel Pentium 100Mhz
RAM: 24 MB
HARD DISK: 810MB Quantum EIDE drive
CD-ROM: I-O Data CDPS12-CX SCSI PCMCIA 12x
Video: Cirrus Logic CT65550 (on board)
Audio: Yamaha OPL3SAx (on board)
NIC: Allied Telesis CentreCOM LA-PCM-T PCMCIA Ethernet card

Software

Windows NT Workstation 4.0 (Japanese, currently SP3) installed on C: drive

Installed software includes:

Windows NT 4.0 Service Pack 3
Internet Explorer 4.0 Service Pack 1
SmartDraw 3
Lemmy 3.0
Microsoft Works 95 (came bundled)
Microsoft Project 98
PalmPilot Desktop

Windows NT Installation Notes and Links

Installation Process

First, I did a quick net search to see if anyone else had faced the challenge of installing NT on a Libretto. I found one very interesting page by XX on installing NT on a Libretto 100. I figured that it should be doable, so I plunged right in.
Next, I installed the SCSI drivers for my PCMCIA SCSI card and CD-ROM under the pre-installed Windows 95. Once I had the CD-ROM drive working under Win95, I copied the \i386 directory to the C: drive.
After clearing out some of the garbage from the hard disk, I can the following command:

c:\i386\winnt.exe /b
From here on, I follow the standard Windows NT install for Japanese Workstation 4.0.
While NT was installing itself on the Libretto, I went to Toshiba's homepage and downloaded some utilities and drivers for NT.
- NT Drivers for Cirrus 65550 video
- NT Drivers for internal Yamaha sound card
- NT Drivers for Toshiba PCMCIA floppy disk
- NT Libretto Tools and Utilities
- NT Drivers for I-O Data PCSCV SCSI PCMCIA card (from I-O Data's homepage)

After the basic installation of NT had completed, I booted into Windows 95 and copied all the drivers I had downloaded on to the hard disk. I also copied the NT drivers for the CentreCOM PCMCIA ethernet card on to the hard disk.
Using the standard method for installing video and audio drivers, I successfully installed the drivers for the Cirrus Logic on board video as well as the Yamaha on board sound. This went in without a hitch and works quite nice. I have internal video set to 640x480x16bit.
Installed the floppy disk drivers next. Tried copying a file from a floppy, but got a very nice bluescreen. I'll save this for later.
Installed drivers for I-O Data PCSCV SCSI and CentreCOM LA-PCM-T Ethernet PCMCIA cards. They go in without any problems so I can connect to my network or use the CD-ROM drive when needed. For the most part, I will connect to the network using my CentreCOM card.
As the basic configuration is done, I installed the NT Libretto Tools and Utilities. This has changed some settings to English which is nice, but I did have to change the keyboard settings back to a Japanese keyboard layout. Other than that, The system works fine. Even the "Suspend" function works perfectly. In the near future, I want to try the floppy drive again as the Libretto Tools might be needed for the floppy drive to work properly.
Next, I deleted all the Windows 95 files after backing them up on to my main workstation. I also converted the filesystem to NTFS (no turning back now).
Finally, installed various software SmartDraw, MS Works, MS Project, Lemmy, Palm Desktop, and Kids Pix (in case my daughter insists on using it). Now, the fun begins.

Yet To Do

Install Service Pack 4.
Solve annoying floppy disk problem of blue-screening when data is copied.
Get Megahertz XJ-1144 modem working (it is included as a standard card in Japanese NT 4.0).