re: Win98 and disk sizes / BIOS calls
Monday, January 1, 2007 at 5:44 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Pete
(110 messages posted)
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On Sunday, December 31, 2006 at 9:10 am, gewg_ wrote:
was: Can I install Win98se on new system?
|Unless I read the docs incorrectly,
| Pete
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Yeah, I think you missed something.
|the 127 g limitation
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>"Grams"[1] are not a limitation. Weight is not an issue.
Looky here, Mr. Perfect, "grams" are mass not weight, which is a force. In the MKS
system it's measured in Newtons (but you already knew that).
--snip--
||Format.com on the Win98 boot disk won't recognise the NTFS drive
|| Keith Stanier
|Format.com should format a partition no matter what file system is already on it;
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>Nope. FDISK lays down the filesystem.
Only in the sense that it defines the start and end of a partition and it's type
(0a, 0b, 0c, 07, 16, etc.).
>DOS-based Windoze (as well as its utilities) is NTFS-ignorant.
>W98's FORMAT utility is expecting some form of FAT.
All I would need is a partition table editor to change the partition type, and DOS
would regognize the partition (as being empty and unformatted), provided it was 2
gb or less. BTDT this several times.
|I have 768 mb memory,
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>Sorry to hear about your 768 millibits if RAM.[1]
Well EXCUSE ME, I wasn't aware that this was a computer engineering dicsussion form.
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>You inverted the mistake so many folks make
|the BIOS
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>Now you're back on track.
What I said was CMOS->BIOS->OS; you need to brush up on your English usage.
|sets the stage for
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>Yup. That's called POST and "booting".
PowerOnSelfTest (oops, got that wrong too).
--snip--
|I.e.
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{purely pedantic}The "i" is never capitalized in "i.e."{/purely pedantic}
Yes, you /are/ a pedant.
|the BIOS points 98se in the right direction and tells it what to expect.
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Well, it "initializes" the hardware.
>(Boot == Pulls itself up by its bootstraps--without an OS in the picture).
Perhaps it passed you by while you had your nose buried in the latest edition of
Trauntwine's Tables, but "booting" has come to mean the whole process of starting
a computer from turning it on to the OS and a desktop, where applicable, appearing
on the screen, in the vernacular of course (being pedant-oriented just for your edification
and delight).
--snip--
>[1] When using engineering terms, the case of the letters is significant
e.g., the difference between "m" (milli) and "M" (Mega) is 9 orders of magnitude
(from 0.001 to 1,000,000).
If you look around the NGs you'll see both cases used all the time. I sounds to me
like you have 6.023 x 10 to the 24th too few brain cells.
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