Re: make win98 boot from cd?

From: Thufir (thufir.hawat_at_mail.com)
Date: 02/01/05


Date: 1 Feb 2005 02:26:08 -0800


Gary S. Terhune wrote:
> I'm sorry, and I'm not trying to be snippy, either. My correction of
> Hugh was correct. There is no group around called
> microsoft.public.win98.gen.discussion. There *is* apparently a rogue
NG
> called microsoft.public.win98.general.discussion, but it isn't hosted
on
> Microsoft's servers. Nobody who logs into news://msnews.microsoft.com
is
> going to see that group. Only if you log into another news server, or
> http://groups.google.com and probably not too many of those, are you
> going to find that NG.

I wasn't aware of that.

> Just pointing that out, since you might want to not use that group.
> There were approx. 37,200 messages posted to
> microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion in 2004--there were only 92
> messages posted to microsoft.public.general.discussion in that same
> period.

When I posted, I didn't see the harm in casting a wide net. The naming
conventions for microsoft.public.* appear inconsistent, then.

> For myself, that's all I have the time or inclination to pursue.
Seems
> to me that plenty of folks have already answered your other
questions.

I'm sorry to hear that. I've yet to figure out how to get to BIOS to
alter the boot sequence.

--
Thufir Hawat


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