[WinMac] Celvin Easy PC.

From: Brian Durant (bdurant[at]peterlink.ru)
Date: Wed Jan 03 2001 - 08:26:30 PST

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    Hi again,

    I just purchased a Fujitsu-Siemens Celvin Easy PC for my kids during the
    holidays. This is a legacy-free PC that I purchased while in Finland over
    the holidays. The computer came with a original software CD and has the same
    software on the hard drive. A UK software CD was not available in Finland. I
    need to therefore, reformat the hard drive and install Win 98 SE UK, which I
    have - as well as a copy of Partition Magic 6.0.

    As this is a legacy-free PC, all peripherals except the monitor need to be
    USB. I purchased a USB floppy drive and a Zip 250 USB drive at the same
    time. There is a built in CD-ROM drive, but as far as I understand I need to
    boot from the floppy drive using emergency floppies. Here are my questions:

    1) Can I boot from a USB floppy in Win 98 SE and how?
    2) Can I instead create one (1) emergency Zip drive with Partition Magic
    installed and boot from that in Win 98? How?
    3) If I should instead decide to boot from the CD-ROM and use Scandisk, is
    it possible to do this with a system on the hard drive and how?

    The idea is to install Win 98 SE (UK) and then install the Celvin drivers
    from the Celvin driver CD:

    a) Do I lose USB keyboard functionality when booting from emergency
    floppies/Zip or the Win 98 SE CD?
    b) The keyboard that came with the computer is a Finnish/Swedish keyboard.
    Will I have any problems booting up with this in DOS? What I am thinking of
    here is whether the default keyboard will be correct or do I need to modify
    something to make sure that the keys are in their proper positions?

    Cheers,

    Brian

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