Installing The Windows 98 Operating System - Dell Inspiron 3800 Reference And Troubleshooting Manual

4-2 Dell Inspiron 3800 Reference and Troubleshooting Guide
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For any operating system that uses a file system other than FAT16 or FAT32,
including compressed file systems such as DriveSpace, use the following
algorithm to determine the amount of disk space to reserve for an
S2D partition:
Size of system memory + size of video memory + 1 percent of size of
system memory and video memory + 2 MB rounded up to the next cylinder
Examples:
32 MB + 4 MB + 0.36 MB + 2 MB = 38.36 MB (approximately 1.25 percent
of a 3-GB drive)
256 MB + 6 MB + 2.62 MB + 2 MB = 266.62 MB (approximately 4.4 percent
of a 4-GB drive)
2. Format the hard-disk drive and assign logical drive letters to the partitions you
created according to the instructions provided with your operating system.
3. Restart the computer from a bootable diskette such as the Microsoft Boot Disk
Windows 98 Series diskette.
4. Create the S2D partition. For instructions, see "Save-to-Disk Suspend Utility,"
found later in this chapter.
5. Follow the instructions found later in this chapter to install the appropriate device
drivers.
6. Install your application programs on the hard-disk drive.
If you have trouble with the hard-disk drive, run the IDE Devices device group
tests in the Dell Diagnostics. For instructions, see "Running the Dell
Diagnostics" in Chapter 3.
7 . If you ever need to remove the S2D partition to free up storage space on the
hard-disk drive, do so by using the rms2d.exe utility on the System Software CD.
For instructions, see "Removing the Save-to-Disk Suspend Partition," found later
in this chapter. When more space is available on the drive, you can also recreate
the S2D partition by using the mks2d.exe utility. For instructions, see "Creating
the Save-to-Disk Suspend Partition," found later in this chapter.
Installing the Windows 98 Operating
System
You must install Windows 98 on the hard-disk drive, as described in the following
steps, before you install any device drivers:
1. Insert the Microsoft Boot Disk Windows 98 Series diskette into the diskette
drive.
2. Restart the computer.