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Well gang, Brian wrote me back early this morning with the answer from
Fujitsu-Siemens... But he still has the problem of no Celvin drivers!
>
>Hi Dan,
>
>The guys and gals at Fujitsu-Siemens are sneaky! The only way to boot is to
>place the original CD-ROM rescue CD, bypass the rescue prompts and wait
>until you have a blinking cursor in front of a Z: drive. Then take out the
>rescue CD, put in the Win 98 SE (UK) CD and type "setup". Now if only I
>could find the ME drivers for the Celvin 8-) The Fujitsu-Siemens (UK) site
>only contains ex-Fujitsu and ex-Siemens drivers!
>
>Cheers,
>
>Brian
Cheers!
Dan
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Curtis Wilcox [mailto:cwcx@mail.rochester.edu]
>Sent: Sunday, January 07, 2001 2:55 AM
>To: winmac@iffy.com
>Subject: RE: [WinMac] Celvin Easy PC part 3.
>
>
>On Sat, 6 Jan 2001, Dan Schwartz wrote:
>
>> Try going back into your BIOS and resetting everything back to default
>> values. Alternately, you may have a defective CD disk since you can boot
>> from the Partition Magic CD.
>>
>> [NOTE: I'm assuming that the Win98SE CD is bootable like the
>>NT & Win2k CD's; but I could be wrong.]
>
>You're not wrong, all Win98 CDs are bootable.
>
>As for not being able to boot from a USB floppy, the two legacy-free
>computers I've played with, Compaq iPaq and HP eVectra, could both boot
>from a USB floppy. I believe the BIOS called them "removables" in the boot
>order list. I've never tried booting from a Zip.
>
>Does the Celvin BIOS really only list CD-ROM and C:?
>
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