Subj : HP fun and games
To   : all
From : Roy J. Tellason
Date : Sun May 15 2005 09:06 pm

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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