re: [Error loading kernel ...]
Saturday, April 4, 2009 at 3:37 pm
Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by gewg_
(4444 messages posted)
don922 wrote:
|Please excuse the bad spacing in my previous messages --
|I didn't understand the tick box at the bottom of the messages.
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Between the Webmaster making defaults that are easier on his bandwidth costs
--but more difficult on posters
and his not doing a good job explaining about HTML formatting,
folks naturally ASSuME they're OK. 8-(
Myself, I can't imagine clicking *Post* without re-reading what I wrote
--preferably in formatted form.
|I am already using a modern OS. From my 1st message:
|"My system is dual booting with Puppy Linux which will still boot."
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Yeah---I remember reading that now. {forehead palm}
|I have very little data that I need to save from my C:\ partition
|so that I can readily get rid of Win98.
|
As James said, you can access those under Linux.
Linux understands FAT32 (and about any other filesystem ever created).
|The only reason I keep it is because I have several programs that are quite old
|but I can't find anything as good currently available.
|
Tried running those under WINE? (No M$ OS needed--no Microsoft Tax(tm).)
http://google.com/search?q=WineHQ
(GPL'd Free Software)
VirtualBox (with a working Windoze install) is another way to avoid rebooting.
(Again, a fair amount of RAM is required for modern stuff like a VM.)
http://google.com/search?q=VirtualBox
This is GPL'd Free Software as well.
|It seems that I will have to trash Win98 and start again.
|
Be careful. Installs of old M$ OSes overwrite the Boot Sector.
As soon as you start to reinstall W98, your Boot Manager will be toast.
cache of
http://www.linuxworld.com/events/2008/ST5-080701_01:08:42.pdf
(Indexed to Page 8)
Your Linux install (if on the same physical disk as your primary Windoze partition)
may get nuked as well. (M$'s FDISK is very stupid; Linux's FDISK is a better choice.)
|I can't figure out how I could have gotten a virus
|because I use Win98 on the internet only to download antivirus updates
|and adjust the clock with Nistime.
|
Do you run a firewall? Don't forget: Just because you only want Port 80
the other 65,000 ports are open--unless blocked/stealthed.
...and there's always the CD drive (and AutoRun)
e.g. http://google.com/search?q=Sony.rootkit
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