Re: new PC catch-22

On 2006-12-30, Robert Baer <robertbaer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Jan Panteltje wrote:

On a sunny day (Fri, 29 Dec 2006 09:01:53 GMT) it happened Robert Baer
<robertbaer@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in
<5Q4lh.8238$X72.3236@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>:

Incorrect; read what i said.

An OS can read the hard drives, and even DOS boots on the hard drive.
Booting from the CD to install WinXP is what is impossible.


If MS DOS boots from the harddisk, it must have FAT16 or so on it?
Win XP will not run on FAT16 I think.

msdos 7.1 (comes with win98se) works with (some subset of) FAT32 also.

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Bye.
Jasen
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