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| subject: | HP fun and games |
So I got this kinda nice HP machine, and I'm trying to see where I can go with it...
It's only got 64M of ram in it, a 10G HD, and when you power it up
there's the option to run some diagnostics, which are apparently installed
on the HD in a small separate partition.
I want to put more ram in there, lose the 98 install, and put a somewhat
smaller HD in it to use the box as a workstation. I'd like to be able to
keep those diagnostics if I can.
At first I thought it'd be easy enough to copy that smallish partition over
to another drive, but I'm not sure about how I'd get it to _boot_ into
that the way it does now.
So last night I start poking around on HP's web site, and I found the
stuff for that model machine ("Brio BA210"). I thought I was on
to something when I saw "OS Independent" but that link pointed to
a 2M+ ".exe" file. Which file, when I try to run it on this box,
says "Cannot be run in DOS mode". WTF? So I looked some more,
and the next logical choice seems to be getting the software for
"DOS". Only thing is, that's a 159MB ISO file! No way am I
gonna download that without being sure that it's what I'd need to make this
work...
Any of you guys have suggestions as to how I might make this work?
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