Next message: John Nurick: "RE: [WinMac] Celvin Easy PC."
> 1) Can I boot from a USB floppy in Win 98 SE and how?
Probably. I would suspect the BIOS has a setting for booting from a USB
floppy. Check out the BIOS of the machine for this option.
> 2) Can I instead create one (1) emergency Zip drive with Partition Magic
> installed and boot from that in Win 98? How?
Probably. Again, I suspect the BIOS has the option to boot from a USB ZIP
as well. Just make a bootable ZIP disk on another machine, using whatever
method you choose (partition magic, format /s, etc.)
> 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?
If you are reformatting, there is no need to run scandisk, I think 98
setup will run it automatically. You can skip all the stuff above by
booting from the 98 CD, but without starting setup. Then run FDISK from
the command prompt and delete the current partition (after making sure
there is nothing on the drive that you want/need). Leave the drive
unpartitioned (alternatively creat a partition(s) liek you want but leave
them unformatted.) Reboot from the CD, this time starting Win98 setup and
the 98 setup program should offer to set up the drive for you.
> 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?
Given that the machine is dependent on USB devices I'd bet this stuff is
handled by the BIOS so that you will still have support for all of it
regardless of how you boot. I have a number of machines that claim to do
this, but I've never forced them to use all USB so while it seems like it
would work this way, I have no proof.
> 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?
As a typical American, I am forced to ignore the existance of other
languages and keyboards :-) so what I would do is pick up a replacement
keyboard before getting too deep into reformatting/reinstalling.
jbh
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