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[marcumbill AT bellsouth.net (Bill Marcum)]

On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 07:26:23PM +1030, Greg Mayman wrote:
> 8. I deleted _all_ drives and partitions from that drive, and set
> it up as before, with one 8Gb primary partition, then reformatted
> it and XXCOPYed all the stuff from the backup disk. But on
> booting, it still took me into Caldera Linux --- which naturally
> wasn't there, so it crashed!
> 
> 9. I booted from a floppy -- at least that still works -- and
> tried to run fips.exe from the CD-ROM to set the thing up for
> multiple boots. But it told me the disk was unusable: "unknown
> type: 0CH. Only DOS partitions may be used (types 4 or 6)."
> 
That must have been a very old floppy, as it doesn't recognize FAT32 
partitions (any DOS/Win9x partition larger than 2 GB).  You can download 
a Win98 boot floppy from http://bootdisk.com. Boot from the floppy and 
type "fdisk /mbr".



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