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  From: Bill Daniels <danwm001@students.unisa.edu.au>
  To  : Phil Pittard <vk5ham@seol.net.au>
  Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 14:00:31 +1030

Re: windoze sux seriously!

assuming hw is all ok

> The BIOS can *see* hdd's up to 1.6Gb but doesnt seem to report them
> correctly cos DOS/WIN FDISK only finds
> 504Mb (NB: I cannot get lilo to install on a hdd larger than 504Mb
> either btw - but runs fine on 408Mb)

sounds like bios doesn't like big hard disks (possibly reporting wrong
number of heads/cylinders?)
prolly need an overlay proggy like ez-drive or ontrack diskmanager


> I can install Linux on it & everything works fine! When I installed 98
> on it, it crashed on the "starting ur system for the 1st time" screen -
> crashed again when looking for PNP etc, crashed again halfway through
> giving network card its IP number & basically every time I tried to
> install anything bigger than abt 5Kb!!

i have had similar probs on a p100 w w95 & nt4
plug and play is a prob best to turn it off in bios too
and on hw if applicable (esp network card)

and have found tis best to setup periphs once a basic windoze is going

cio
Bill