Re: Installing Win98 on a P4
From: Winged (Winged_at_nofollow.com)
Date: 06/06/05
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Date: Mon, 06 Jun 2005 06:22:26 -0500
Robert Baer wrote:
> Winged wrote:
>
>> Bad Disciple wrote:
>>
>>> Hi everybody,
>>>
>>> The goddamn nasty computer character hits again...
>>>
>>> On a P4, 2.4GH and 1.5GB RAM, I want to use some work
>>> made with old Win 98 programs that don't work in Win XP.
>>> So, I disconnected all the other HDs on that computer, added
>>> another (formatted) HD, and started installing Win 98 on it.
>>> In the middle of the process it stops and says things like:
>>> "not enough memory", "remove programs using memory" and
>>> "remove lines from autoexec and configsys files". 1000 thunders,
>>> there are no other programs at all, it's all new from scratch !
>>>
>>> What's the ugly reason for this? Must be a solution anyway.
>>> Computers will not do what they "want" with us, we will do what
>>> we want with them !
>>>
>>> Thanks for replying,
>>> Bad Disciple
>>>
>>>
>>>
>> Sounds like your computer is using you again;-)
>>
>> Was that HD formatted on this system or one with the same motherboard
>> or same IDE controller? I suspect from your description you used a
>> drive that had been formatted on another controller. If not you may
>> want to fdisk and format that drive on the system to which it will be
>> installed.
>>
>> Did you run the drive integrity check portion of win98 SE install?
>>
>> Winged
>
> Methinks you do not know the actual limits of Win98...
> This is *NOT* a HD problem.
Yup, I was obviously in error. It has been a long time since I ran 98
and at the time the memory was not an issue. From the description it
sounded like a preformated drive was used which I have seen problems
with. Yes, I was in error. Happens :-)
Winged
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