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re: Win98 and HDD larger than 137GB
Friday, March 14, 2008 at 5:51 am
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by C K
(5827 messages posted)
I thought about suggesting that, but sometimes I get people (and myself) into trouble
when going beyond the subject at hand. I hope Linux gets to a point that can truly
rival Windows. I'm actually using Ubuntu right now and writing this, but I am more
curious to keep up with the Linux distro's than actually use them for my professional
apps, of which there aren't equals to the ones I have to use in Windows. I wish
there were. That plus the learning curve is steeper than is for Windows, Windows
apps and the OS itself.
MS has really dumbed down the technology, or is it we are just more lazy than we
were back in the 1980's, the days of pure DOS and all the installation/configuration
that was done manually??? ;-)
Yea, MS needs some good competition and I hope I live long enough to see it! :-)
On Thursday, March 13, 2008 at 11:35 am, gewg_ wrote:
>|Even if the computers BIOS will handle more than 137 gig,
>|Win 98/SE/ME is limited to 137 gig.[...]
>|move the data off the drive and partition it to 137 gig,
>|or a few gig less to be safe,
>|and [do] not partition the rest, or if you do, just [do] not use it.[...]
>|It's an OS issue that MS has no intention of fixing
>|as it is out of support and would need some extensive rewriting to fix[...]
>| C K
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>I'm thinking that this is an ideal opportunity for the OP to expand his/her horizons.
>.On the remaining space, s/he could put a filesystem type that Windows 98
>(or WinNT for that matter) wouldn't recognize even if it tripped over it.
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>Linux supports so many filesystem types, it could make your head spin:[1]
>http://www.google.com/search?q=minix+ext+ext2+xia+umsdos+proc+nfs+hpfs+sysv+ncpfs...
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>One of the numerous bootable Linux CDs would get him/her started
>cache of http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php
>and, if the first one wasn't quite to his/her liking, another could be tried[2]
>until one is found to be **best fit for me**
>at which time that preferred Linux distro could be *installed* on the HDD.
>(Linux comes with boot managers too.) http://www.google.com/search?q=LiLo+GRUB
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>Just a thought.
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>[1] BTW, Linux now has FULL NTFS support (yes, writing too)
>cache of http://www.ntfs-3g.org
>and has had FAT/FAT32/VFAT support almost as long as Windoze has.
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>[2] Most flavors of Linux are gratis. Ubuntu and its variants
>(Kubuntu, Xubuntu, Edubuntu...) are the current darlings of the desktop crowd.
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