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re: New install -- on XP-era hardware
Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 4:48 pm
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Posted by gewg_ (3521 messages posted)


|[...]recently built a computer[...]1 GB of mem[...]installed XP, Linux and 98 SE.
| Ned Rodriguez

Trying to use a 9-year-old M$ OS on more recent hardware has all kinds of gotchas.
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/t1136243875


Here's a short version of the RAM problem:
http://www.annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1183134656

AXCEL216's version has some extra meat: 
cache of http://www.mdgx.com/newtip8.htm
++MaxPhysPage+MSCONFIG.EXE+Q304943+Q184447


What Linux distro did you use?  How did that install go?




Written in response to:
New install (Ned Rodriguez: Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 2:18 pm)

Responses to this message:
*re: New install -- on XP-era hardware (Ned Rodriguez: Thursday, November 29, 2007 at 9:25 pm)

All messages in this thread [show all]
-New install (Ned Rodriguez: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 2:18 pm)
*re: New install (Steve: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 2:37 pm)
-re: New install -- on XP-era hardware (gewg_: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 4:48 pm)
*re: New install -- on XP-era hardware (Ned Rodriguez: Thu, Nov 29, 2007, 9:25 pm)
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