Amen, Brother
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> I haven't tried it (yet), but the Inspiron can boot from the CDROM drive (change
> the BIOS configuration). This would eliminate the need for a bootable floppy
> with the CDROM drivers on it. Knowing how to make that floppy is still a useful
> skill since there are times when you may want to try to resurrect a badly
> scrambled Win95/98 partition by doing an "update" install -- it is your rescue
> disk.
>
> Booting from the CDROM is convenient but doesn't help you get drivers for all of
> your hardware. My experience with Windows products is that your machine is
> never quite the same after you do a clean re-install.
>
> gvb
>
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> Subject: RE: re-installing Win98 on a freshly repartitioned machine
> Author: Douglas Wagner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Date: 11/29/98 10:45 PM
>
> [snip]
>
> After making completely sure that you have EVERY DRIVER for your
> computer ON DISK, then pop a blank floppy into your drive, type:
>
> format a: /u/s and hit enter. let it format the floppy and install the
> boot files to it. Then, you need to find your cd-rom driver on diskette
> (if you are running 95 or 98 I gaurentee it won't be on the damn hard
> drive, it couldn't be that easy) and copy it to your boot floppy. Copy
> format.com, fdisk.exe(or com wich ever it is), edit.com, mscdex.exe, and
> sys.com from the \windows\command directory to your boot floppy, and copy
> the himem.sys file from \windows to your disk as well. Now, you need to
> create a config.sys and autoexec.bat file.
>
> config.sys:
> device=a:\himem.sys
> device=a:\<cdromdriver> /d:cdrom
>
> autoexec.bat:
> a:\mscdex.exe /d:cdrom
>
> or something like that. That will get you a bootable floppy that loads the
> cdrom driver at boot and has the ability to fdisk, format, and sys the
> harddrive.
>
> [snip]
>
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