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Hi Brian,
Some answers inline - but not many, I'm afraid...
> -----Original Message-----
> 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?
There should be a BIOS setting that controls where the system looks when
booting up. The "classic" sequence is 1-floppy; 2-first hard drive, but for
the last few years PC BIOS's have allowed this to be altered. If you set it
to 1-CDROM; 2-first hard drive, it should attempt to boot from the CDROM if
there is one in the drive, otherwise from the HD. (The range of settings
here should tell you whether the computer thinks it can boot from a USB
device.)
If you're lucky there'll be a utility called "hardware setup" which lets you
adjust BIOS settings through the Win GUI. But there should also be a way of
accessing the BIOS setup early in the boot process (in case an incorrect
setting is preventing the machine from booting). Make sure you know how to
invoke this!
> 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?
I don't know - but if you do it suggests there's a desperate flaw in the
legacy-free concept!
> 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?
USB issues apart there shouldn't be any problems booting. But if you load
plain vanilla DOS the system will assume it's a US keyboard (and will also
use the default - US - codepage). To avoid this you need to include KEYB and
COUNTRY lines in CONFIG.SYS; I don't have the details to hand but could
probably dig them out if you need them.
ATB
John
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