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To: Zeuspaul who wrote (3407)	11/4/1998 2:39:00 AM
From: pae	Read Replies (3) of 14778

Interesting evening brushing up on my boot disk MS-DOS trivia skills... The Win98 bootdisk arrived largely setup to take on an upgrade situation rather than an unformatted HD situation, so diskcopied it to a working 3.5". But that didn't include the system attribute (or did I slide the diskette into the 2nd 3.5" drive that isn't cabled up???). Anyway, eventually got Win98 Dos running off floppy. Partitioned the 3.2g Fireball. Discovered FORMAT not on floppy. Copied Format.sys from Win95. Thought about it. Found Format.sys on WIn98 CD and copied that onto floppy. Formatted C: and D:. Thought about trying to wrestle mscdex parameters. Decided to partition and format 2nd Fireball 7.6g, so could install W98 to "active" partition there to enable WinNT install (no boot disk w/NT - could I have made one w/o installing NT first?) to "active" partition of 3.2gFireball #1. Clearly Partition Magic is in my future. <g> Do I need disk-copy too? Don't want to get to elaborate. KISS works well - but what about when only YOU think the setup is simple? Had an interesting cable problem. Couldn't get the first hd recognized. Swapped in a different cable. AUTO worked everywhere. Looked more closely at the cable (from GW2k): the end connector was on the wrong side of the ribbon! The red stripe was on the wrong end of 1 of 3 connectors! So I took it off, turned it over, squeezed it back on, cut off 1/4" of cable with scissors and it seems to be working fine. Is there any logic to drive letter assignment? Like Primaries first, even though they are on 2 different physical drives, then the "extended" partitions? My nifty Acer Ergo keyboard comes with a (wimpy according to some <g>) touchpad in the middle - but apparantly connected to a serial-type connector. I hate to give up a serial port to the mouse, is there a way to 'adapt' this to the mouse port? Thanks. Paul

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