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Problems here with a 2.8 GHz PC, set for dual boot,
Win98SE and Xandros Open 4 (Debian). The original
idea was to use one to restore the other, in case of
need. This has not quite worked . . .

1. I need to reinstal Win98. This is tricky, cf. the NDIS
error on PCs faster than 2.2 GHz (divide by zero hence
crash at one of the two reboots integral to the installation
process.) I succeeded in 2005 by sheer repetition, no
NDIS error at the 5th or 6th attempt . . . but have ever
since been reluctant to try again. But it seems I am now
obliged to do so (by stem errors caused by a failing power
supply, now replaced.)

Xandros was installed second, and added its own boot
manager which works well. Will I destroy this if I:
1a. simply reinstal Win98 ?
1b. do a DOS fdisk /mbr before reinstalling (in case
that is where the trouble lies) ?

2. Still a novice in Linux I do not know how to
2a. Restore the Xandros boot manager for dual boot
if it is overwritten as above.
2b. Restore Linux boot access to two CD drives and
floppy. They used to be correctly mounted at boot,
one DVD RW, one CD RO, one floppy RW. But this
no longer happens, and I had a lot of trouble mounting
these drives. I tried rewriting fstab but this failed at the
next boot.
2c. Restore the audio playback system (for radio via
Internet, playing MP3 and WAV files etc.) This was
automatically set up by Xandros installation and worked
well via Firefox to BBC Internet, saving and editing via
Audacity, and playback e.g. in RealPlayer. After
maybe three months disuse, the Xandros system
now is mute (and its own help files no help.)

I would be glad of advice especially ## 1 above.

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Don Phillipson
Carlsbad Springs
(Ottawa, Canada)