re: install windows 98 on my new computer?
Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 2:14 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
|If the Motherboard and Chipset do not support Win98,
|it's doubtful you'll get this dualboot to work.
| bob wells
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Yup. If he was knowledgeable enough to write his own device drivers,
he wouldn't have had to post this here.
|Win98 Will not have drivers for the Hardware on your MOBO
|and NO Chipset Drivers will be available for Win98.
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...not to mention the problem with >512MB of RAM
--and other (more recent) non-compatible protocols/architectures:
http://annoyances.org/exec/forum/win98/1167403293
There are also (unverified) rumors
that M$ is pressuring vendors to take down *existing* drivers for older M$ OSes.
Whether this is the reason or not, they ARE disappearing from many sites.
|To Dualboot Win98 and any NT OS, Win98 needs to be installed first,
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Not entirely true, but that would make life easier.
(A 3rd-party boot manager *can* get you there from here.)
|[...]It can be done the other way around but it's more difficult[...]
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Bingo. The first thing an M$ OS install does is nuke the Boot Sector. 8-|
|You might be able to Run Win98 as Virtual Machine, using some sort of VMWare.
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That's the logical choice--if this silliness is absolutely necessary.
Actually, **ANY** M$ OS should *ONLY* be run in a virtual environment;
when it BSoDs or gets infected, you just quit the session
--no permanent harm to those fragile M$ OSes.
(This requires Linux--or some other Unix-like OS--or a VM that runs on bare metal.)
VirtualBox is the current darling of the VM lot.
cache of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_virtual_machines
Notice how many say "free" (freeware) or "GPL" (Free Software)
as well as several others under different Open Source Software licences.
|Then there's the 64 Bit MOBO
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Yup. All kind of gotchas here.
...and I'm failing to see what the point would be anyway
--if he has a version of Windoze running already.
Only if he is a developer and has to test things on multiple platforms
would this make sense to me.
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