I'll wade in on this topic as I too went through the re-partition/install routine on
my 3k this
past weekend. I made sure that I had the video and sound drivers on floppy and then
used the
boot floppy to get things going. Install from the win95 cd went like a charm.
In defense of the tech support people at Dell, I ran into a problem where (don't ask
me how) I
managed to have two partitions that were non-contiguous. No matter what I tried I
could not
delete either one. I called up Dell, and tech support had me enter a short debug
script that
removed all of the partition info. Much to my relief I might add.
All in all I'm very happy with Dell (and of course with my little linux powered
computer)
Fintan
> > From: Douglas Wagner[SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > Sent: Monday, November 30, 1998 12:23:53 PM
> > To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'
> > Subject: RE: re-installing Win98 on a freshly repartitioned machine
> > Auto forwarded by a Rule
> >
> Good point.
>
> The computer I was talking about was an Inspiron 3K..sounds like Dell has
> done something right since the 3K started shipping....
>
> CD? What CD? I would assume you mean that dell shipped you a cd with the
> drivers on it to re-install a system. That's nice...they didn't and don't
> do that for the 3K...don't know about the 3200, but on the 3K most of the
> drivers are shipped on the HD and you use a disk maker program to make
> floppies of those drivers. As I said, the Network Drivers were not
> included and the CD driver shipped does not work with the 3K's cd drive.
>
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