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3.1.2.1 Rundown on Softpaq installation procedure
I have found that each SP****.EXE is generally accompanied with a corresponding SP****.DOC file with some basic info and instructions. I have found they are all the same though really: 1. get the .exe onto your system somehow 2. execute it and follow the instructions They generally ask you to stick in a scratch floppy and reboot. I appreciate that they generally store the previous/old contents of what they are replacing back onto the same floppy so you can roll back if you want to later. If you ever do boot your setup partition, I highly recommend making three floppies while you are there: 1. setup 2. diagnostics 3. minimal boot floppy (format a:/s) with goodies like format and fdisk. There's a little menu to guide you though the first two. These have helped me several times straighten things out such as for the new disk and when I installed Linux.
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