reformatting a disk for windows98

David Duong dduong at goldenmunky.org
Mon Aug 13 05:14:47 UTC 2007


Well imo, VirtualBox uses less cpu than vmware, at the current moment, 
I'm running Winxp in VirtualBox at 1680x1050 + Compiz fusion and still 
running less than 10% cpu.  But maybe because I have an uber pc :P

Anyways, yes Dave is right, just boot from the win98 disk and go from 
there :P

~ David Duong

Dave Scott wrote:
> Well there's always:
> 1. install wine
> 2. install vmware under wine/win
> 3. install win98 under vmware
>
> can we spell cpu at 100% :)
>
> Dave
> PS. I still think the simplest would be to boot from the win98 disk and go from there.
>
>
> :-)
> OK, the competition is now on!  Who can come up with the most convoluted 
> method of playing Win98 games
> :-)
>
> SteVe
>
>   
>
>
> SteVe Cook wrote:
>>> What about installing Windows 98 in VirtualBox and run the games off
>>> of that?  Of course if there are 3d games then it might have issues?
>>>
>>>     
>>>>> try using wine.
>>>>>
>>>>> to install wine, type:
>>>>>
>>>>> sudo apt-get install wine
>>>>>
>>>>>         
>>
>>   
>
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