LINUX on Windows 98

[Brie Gordon]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:08 AM, Jimmy Montague
<rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net> 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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Regards,

Brie A. Gordon
A Linux Chica

http://granite.sru.edu/~bag6849/index.html