Re: Upgrade question

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From: Richard Tibbetts
Date: Tue, 02 May 2000 00:00

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Robin Faichney <robin@nospam.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>Richard Tibbetts <richard@primepeace.ltd.uk> wrote:
>> I'm about to fit a new motherboard and replacement disk to one of my
>> machines.  What do I need to put onto floppy before I start, bearing
>> in mind that the OS CDs I have are a "to be supplied with a new PC
>> only" W95 CD and a W98 upgrade CD?
>
>Oh boy, one I can answer!
>
>Make a Win98 startup disk, even though you'll be installing Win95 first,
>because the Win98 variety includes CD support and the Win95 doesn't.
>That's all you need.  Ignore the "new PC only" bit.

Thanks for that.  The other thing I may try is installing the new disk
in the old system and SYSing it first, then XCOPYing everything
across.  I'm sure there must be a way of avoiding going back to W95
here somewhere...if the worst comes to the worst, I can always do it
properly ;-)
-- 
Richard Tibbetts
http://www.primepeace.ltd.uk/
Feeling generous? Then see http://www.ppeace.demon.co.uk/richardt.htm#swimathon

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