[Ham-Computers] RE: Windows98/SE Issue

[KD7JYK DM09]

"allows one to boot a laptop with a parallel-port CD drive and allows the
use of FDISK, FORMAT, and SETUP programs to install Win98/SE etc.
I have another Win98 boot diskette (with FORMAT.COM extracted) that will
allow you to load universal drivers for an internal CD-ROM drive and run
FDISK, FORMAT and SETUP to install Win98."

I have windows 98 SE on my "mainframe", clicking the "create boot disk"
button makes a disk for me with all this and more.

"You mention that you wanted to get more than 2GB from your 5GB drive -
that comes from using FDISK.EXE from Windows98. It would, of course,
mean that you need to start over, but you would get what you are looking
for in terms of hard drive availability."

I boot with the 98 SE boot disk and I use FDISK to partition the drive into
one 5 GB usable chunk, no problem there.  The problem comes in that my
Windows 98 SE CD is an UPGRADE.  It won't boot on it's own and can't install
completely from itself.

Because of the above, I have to start with a combination of DOS 6.22, and
Windows 3.11.  Both of these knock the drive back down to 2 GB.

I also have the problem of only one bay in the computer, which can hold a
floppy drive or CD, not both and they are not hot-swappable.

Best as I can detemrine, I will have the best luck installing Windows 95 via
the floppy drive, using floppies, once that is functional and it see's the
CD ROM as plug and play, which WIndows 98SE did, but with the 2 GB drive
problem, I should then be able to put the WIndows 95 to 98 SE upgrade disk
in and upgrade from WIndows 95 with 5 GB drive to Windows 89 SE with 5 GB
drive.

My problem is clearly the upgrade from Windows 3.11 to 98 SE on a computer
much larger and more capable of what WIndows 3.11 can support.

Kurt