re: install windows 98 on my new computer?
Monday, October 6, 2008 at 6:08 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by heh heh
(11 messages posted)
Hello,
I am afraid that I made the same mistake you did, I was
running a pent 4 2.8 ghz circa...2005 motherboard and it ran win98SE quite well and
very fast. Then I went tried to
put 98SE on a newer (2008)motherboard no go. However there are still still new motherboards.
that still have drivers for win98SE, research, research...
On Sunday, October 5, 2008 at 2:14 pm, gewg_ wrote:
>|If the Motherboard and Chipset do not support Win98,
>|it's doubtful you'll get this dualboot to work.
>| bob wells
>|
>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.
>|
>...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,
>|
>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[...]
>|
>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.
>|
>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
>|
>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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