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It's long overdue that the x86 world adopted the legacy-free model that the
PCI Macs started, and the iMac completed. This is as important for OS stability
as was Apple's dropping "legacy" 24 bit support with System 7.6.
Anyway, you can start out at <http://www.bootdisk.com> for booting info; and
if you need to build a bootable CD you can go to <http://www.winchen.com>.
One nice thing: Since about 1994, PC's (starting with servers &/or SCSI card)
had CD booting capability. But, you need to use either an OEM CD (such as an
NT4 or Win98 CD), or a bit-for-bit copy of it.
If you can, I would recommend Windows 2000 since it runs quite nicely on the
legacy-free iPaq's...
Cheers!
Dan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Brian Durant [mailto:bdurant@peterlink.ru]
>Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 11:27 AM
>Subject: [WinMac] Celvin Easy PC.
>
>
>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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