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from: Roy J. Tellason
date: 2005-05-15 20:06:00
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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