TOM WALKER wrote in a message to ROY J. TELLASON:

RJT> TW> IF tyhe CD was set up to do an automatic partitioning without
RJT> TW> telling you that would not help I don't think.

RJT> TW> But doing Test Runs on a spare drive sounds like the way to go. ---

RJT>I don't recall what the CD does,  it's the standard 98 cd.  I used
RJT>to use ' all the time,  building systems,  but that was 5-6 years 
RJT>ago...

TW>  I set up a Win98SE system using a Generic OEM CD and don't recal
TW> lit  doing any partitioning and Formatting at all.

I don't think it specifically tells you when it's doing it.

TW> YOU had to manualy set up the hard drive usoing the EBD.

My recollection is that it does it if there aren't any there,  like on a
new drive or something.  I still haven't got a test fixture set up yet...

TW> Only one time did I ever use a "Recovery Disk " version and it was
TW> a custom one set up the install Win95 on some Compaq Deskpro 486/66
TW> machines. But even that one need the Hard Drive to be prepaired
TW> manualy before the OS install.

It did?  Hm.  I can't say I've ever done much with one of those.

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