BEN RITCHEY wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

 BR> * An ongoing debate between Roy J. Tellason and All rages on ... 

| RT> somewhat smaller HD in it to use the box as a workstation.  I'd like
| RT> to be able to keep those diagnostics if I can.

 BR> Compaq does this, too. To propagate the maintenance partition you
 BR> have use it to (re-)create it's own "install" diskettes (I needed
 BR> two here, Install & Diagnostics).

 BR> Just boot from the Install floppy with a fresh HD and it does it's
 BR> thing ... 

I didn't see anything in there about making floppies.

No matter.  I got tired of messing around with it and yanked the drive. 
And installed linux on that box...

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