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matty
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Jan 03, 2005 - 09:02 AM |
 
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I just got hold of an old Pentium 2 Dell that I want to use to run Windows 98 on. It used to belong to the Australian consulate and was sold on for bugger all. I got it as a blank slate - ie. totally formatted.
I got the boot disk off the Internet and the CD-Rom, but when I try and install it, it says Windows 98 needs a valid FAT or FAT32 partition to install it. It said it needs fdisk. Can you get boot disks with fdisk on it to get the correct FAT partition?
Does anyone know what I need and where I can get it from?
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SwedishChef
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Jan 03, 2005 - 11:52 AM |
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no idea...
Just a question though...is there a reason why you want to run Win98.
Why not opt for Win2K or XP (well, not XP if you can aviod it) |
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matty
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Jan 03, 2005 - 01:28 PM |
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It's a Pentium II with 128mb of ram and a 266mhz processor, so it is too old and slow to happily run XP.
I've thought of putting Red Hat on it. |
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Alaska
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Jan 03, 2005 - 02:29 PM |
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if you have another computer with a zip utility, you can extract the fdisk.exe from the cab file on the Win98 CD and copy it to the floppy. I believe the fdisk.exe file is in base5.cab. |
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Edgewood
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Jan 04, 2005 - 03:35 PM |
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Shouldn't be much of a problem, but fdisk can be a bugger to use if you're not used to it. I suggest buying a bootleg Win2000 CD (5 kuai) and booting up with that in the drive. It has a nice format/partition utility built in. After you finish doing that, either stop the installation and install Win98 (SE is best) or go on and finish installing Win2000, which is what I advise. You computer should run that no problems (XP is garbage anyway). |
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CheekyMonkiez
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Jan 04, 2005 - 04:39 PM |
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Hmm....you want to run Red Hat but you don't know how to find fdisk? Have you seriously tried looking on the internet? btw...I wouldn't recommend 98...just jump to Win2K |
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Edgewood
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Jan 05, 2005 - 07:15 AM |
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Agreed. Red Hat is not for the uninitiated. |
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matty
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Jan 05, 2005 - 10:06 AM |
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Edgewood
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Jan 05, 2005 - 01:41 PM |
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No problems for the hardware you've described. |
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