Win98 -- all kidding aside

Brie Gordon brie.gordon at gmail.com
Fri Jul 25 01:46:06 UTC 2008


On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 7:30 PM, Jimmy Montague
<rhetoric102 at iowatelecom.net> wrote:
> Thank you, Spruil. It's nice to know that because I just a few minutes
> installed Vbox. I was gonna do the 98 install tonight. Now I think I
> might not . . . . And lately I been wondering just why I want to do it
> anyway. Maybe I'll just forget the whole thing.
>
>
>> On Thu, 24 Jul 2008 10:16:19 -0500, Jimmy Montague wrote:
>>
>> > Is there any way to get Win98 running inside Ubuntu?
>>
>> I hope 98 works in Vmware because I found it very hard to get working
>> properly in Virtualbox.
>>
>> In many cases it's hard to install in the first place because, at least
>> in my case, the OEM and upgrade CDs were never bootable. You can overcome
>> this by using one of the IMGs at bootdisk.com
>>
>> Then you hit the second snag. Vbox Additions don't work with 98 and this
>> created all sorts of hardware issues for me. I never really resolved this
>> and in the end I just used an old 233 I bought from the local paper.
>>
>>  Xen might be a third option.
>>
>>
>
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If you do decide to through with it here is some information VMware
posted about Windows 98 VMs.
http://www.vmware.com/support/reference/common/guest_win98.html

Best of luck!

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Regards,

Brie A. Gordon
A Linux Chica

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




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