🚀 go-pugleaf

In article: <1z5z6RAKWQF3EwIC@shacc.demon.co.uk>  Tom Mullan 
<tom@shacc.demon.co.uk> writes:
> 
> In article <370e5bb9.13913772@news.demon.co.uk>, Harry Broomhall
> <haeb@pc60.demon.co.uk> writes
> >On Thu, 8 Apr 1999 21:49:45 +0100, Tom Mullan 
<tom@shacc.demon.co.uk>
> >wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>I've just assembled a new pc (350PII) which appears to work ok so 
far,
> >>ie to the point where it asks for a boot disk. As it is an 18Gb 
HD I
> >>want to partition it. I intend booting using DOS6.2, so my 
question is
> >>will FDISK support partitions up to 7Gb?
> >>
> >>And also why doesn't OEM win98 come with a win98 boot disk?
> >>
> >  IMHO *don't* use DOS6.2 on such a large drive.  It doesn'r 
support
> >drives over 8Gb correctly.  On drives under this limit the largest
> >partition you can create is 2Gb.
> >
> >  Instead use the 'DOS' that ships with Win98.
> 
> But how? You need a CD driver installed first so you can read the 
win98
> CD. 
You don't.
The CD itself is bootable. On machines supporting boot from CD-ROM 
(anything recent - which is what the OEM product is aimed at), you 
just boot the CD...

Best Wishes

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