Re: LINUX on Windows 98

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Jimmy Montague
<rhetoric102@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Official MS system minimum requirements for Win98* include
355 mb hdd space
16 mb system RAM
486 DX2/66 processor

I was with Win98 from the rollout. It ran real shitty in 16 megs of RAM,
but it ran. It ran a lot better in 32 megs and better still in 64. If
you had Win98 in 256 megs of RAM, you were drivin' a Cadillac.

*Source is Windows 98 Resource Kit from MS Press.

On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 21:53 +1000, Karl Auer wrote:
On Thu, 2008-07-24 at 05:43 -0600, Karl Larsen wrote:
How much RAM does a 1997 (11 year old!) computer have? Windows 98
was made to run with 100 KB of RAM.

No it was not. Where do you *get* this stuff?

http://support.microsoft.com/kb/182751

K.



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I've been able to bring several older (built for Windows 98) laptops
using Kubuntu. DSL is also a good choice but it is not the easiest
persistent install.

How much memory do you have?
Have you considered a memory upgrade? Memory for older laptops is pretty cheap.
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