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Keith R. Williams wrote:
> In article <kbim11dsvq60trhu5qh8tec2rpb6j94h5t@4ax.com>,
> chrisv@nospam.invalid says...
>
> <snip>
>
>>Well, I got it going this weekend. No insurmountable problems. There
>>was a BIOS bug that is a show-stopper if you're installing Win2k, so
>>you'll need a floppy-drive to fix that (I always build-in a floppy
>>drive anyway).
>
>
> I have a similar issue, though the BIOS install wants a Win95 or Win98
> emergency repair diskette. I got to the first step; went out and bought
> a box of diskettes. The second step is a little more difficult, no
> Win9x installed anywhere. Hmm.
>

Lots of disk images can be downloaded from http://www.bootdisk.com/


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Rob Stow wrote:

>Keith R. Williams wrote:
>>
>> I have a similar issue, though the BIOS install wants a Win95 or Win98
>> emergency repair diskette. I got to the first step; went out and bought
>> a box of diskettes. The second step is a little more difficult, no
>> Win9x installed anywhere. Hmm.
>
>Lots of disk images can be downloaded from http://www.bootdisk.com/

Wow, they even had one for Keith's 5 1/4" drive!

 

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In article <57tm11ln8g4ib747r9f3ar6lsq3ag3kgj0@4ax.com>,
chrisv@nospam.invalid says...
> Rob Stow wrote:
>
> >Keith R. Williams wrote:
> >>
> >> I have a similar issue, though the BIOS install wants a Win95 or Win98
> >> emergency repair diskette. I got to the first step; went out and bought
> >> a box of diskettes. The second step is a little more difficult, no
> >> Win9x installed anywhere. Hmm.
> >
> >Lots of disk images can be downloaded from http://www.bootdisk.com/
>
> Wow, they even had one for Keith's 5 1/4" drive!
>
Interesting thought; A 5 1/4" drive on my Opteron. I have a couple in
the basement in my 5150 PC. I'd have to get out the dremel and perhaps
borrow your hammer thumbs though.

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In article <MPG.1c85446f84765fb998993b@news.individual.net>,
Keith R. Williams <krw@att.bizzzz> wrote:
>In article <57tm11ln8g4ib747r9f3ar6lsq3ag3kgj0@4ax.com>,
>chrisv@nospam.invalid says...
>> Rob Stow wrote:
>> >Keith R. Williams wrote:
>> >> I have a similar issue, though the BIOS install wants a Win95 or Win98
>> >> emergency repair diskette. I got to the first step; went out and bought
>> >> a box of diskettes. The second step is a little more difficult, no
>> >> Win9x installed anywhere. Hmm.
>> >
>> >Lots of disk images can be downloaded from http://www.bootdisk.com/
>>
>> Wow, they even had one for Keith's 5 1/4" drive!
>>
>Interesting thought; A 5 1/4" drive on my Opteron. I have a couple in
>the basement in my 5150 PC. I'd have to get out the dremel and perhaps
>borrow your hammer thumbs though.

Hmm...looks like my Athlon 64 box at home won't be the only AMD64 box with a
5.25" floppy drive. 🙂

(I even modified the cable so that the drive at the end is B: and the drive
in the middle is A:, as the 3.5" drive is mounted underneath the 5.25" drive
and the floppy connector is at the bottom edge of the motherboard. Yes,
there's an option in setup to swap drives, but WinXP gets confused when you
do that.)

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