At this point I have all my hardware assembled and will soon be "powering
up".  I bought an OEM Windows XP disk.  If I understand things correctly I
do not need to make a systems disk (I have one for W98), I just need to make
the BIOS changes so that the system will 1st try the CD where it will find
XP and go from there.  That is I can do the equivalent of the fdisk
operations from the XP CD.  I'm not sure I understand how the CD drive knows
how to read the disk.  BTW I using a new HHD.   If I decide to separate the
OS and another logical drive for programs, how much room should I leave for
XP -  I'm  thinking 5 GB is enough?  The drive is an 80 GB WD800JB.

Bob Warasila
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