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In article <ilcb+GAYPfD3EwqD@digital-design.demon.co.uk>, Kevin Craske
<kevin@digital-design.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:
>>
>>  The OEM version of Win98 doesn't include a boot disk for the simple
>>reason that the OEM has already installed the OS.  And you can create
>>a boot disk from Win98.  (Actualy - most OEM builders load the drive
>>from a network image - but the *principle* is there!)  And of course
>>you wouldn't be doing illegal things like using an OEM version which
>>has been de-bundled from the original machine would you?  <grin>
>>
>Win98 OEM comes with an installation boot floppy so that the hard drive
>can be partitioned

No it doesn't. Unless MS forgot to include it in the pack.

>, an active partition made and formatted.  Remember, a
>new computer has nothing.  The installation boot floppy also contains
>drivers so that the CD will spin, be it a IDE or SCSI drive. As part of
>the installation, Windows 98 creates a boot floppy, but this is not the
>same as the installation floppy, the created floppy is boot disk which
>allows a boot into DOS or Windows assuming a hard drive that has an
>active partition and is formatted. 
>As an OEM we supply all the disks.

What disks? My win98 had only two CD's supplied.

>  Then if a customer wishes to FDISK
>his hard drive and do a clean installation of Windows 98 he is able to
>do so. An OEM

I am the OEM!

> that only supplies the Windows 98 CD denies the customer
>this facility.  An OEM can image Windows 98 but should, in our opinion,
>still supply original full OEM Windows 98 package.
>As for illegal use of a piece of software, that is another matter.

Nothing illegal, its registered in my name.

-- 
Tom Mullan