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Step 12
First Time System Boot-Up
To assure the completeness and correctness of your system installation, you
may check the above installation steps once again before you boot up your
system for the first time.
1. Insert a bootable system floppy disk (DOS 6.2x, Windows 95/98/NT, or
others) which contains FDISK and FORMAT utilities into the FDD.
2. Turn on the system power.
3. First, you must use the FDISK utility to create a primary partition of the
hard disk. You can also add an extended partition if your primary
partition does not use all of the available hard disk space. If you
choose to add an extended partition, you will have to create one or
more logical partitions to occupy all the space available in the ex-
tended partition. The FDISK utility will assign a drive letter (i.e., C:,
D:, E:,...) to each partition which will be shown in the FDISK program.
After FDISK procedure, reboot your system by using the same system
floppy disk.
4. Now, use the FORMAT utility to format all the partitions you’ve cre-
ated. When formatting the primary partition (C:), make sure to use the
FORMAT C: /S command.
5. Install all the necessary drivers for CD-ROM, Mouse, etc.
6. Set up the complete operating system according to your OS installation
guide.
Note:
DOS 6.2x and Windows 95A can only support up to 2.1GB of
HDD partition. If you use the FDISK utility with one of the
operating systems mentioned above, you can only install your
HDD into partitions no larger than 2.1GB each.
Note:
FORMAT C: /S can transfer all the necessary system files into the
primary partition of your hard disk. Then, your HDD will be-
come a bootable drive.
Note:
This mainboard supports ACPI. Consequently, NumLock on
keyboard is still on whenever you turn off system.
