best way to get Win98 on a computer with no CD and linux on it right now?

[astroview]

I have a laptop, with network, but no CD and linux on it right now. I want Win98 on it b/c all Linux GUI's are slow on the laptop.

any ideas?

 

[Warrenton]

Okay, if you do have a network connection...

First, I assume you have a partition you could canibalize...

Remove that partition, and create and extended and put a FAT16 2GB in it. Reboot to a DOS floppy and format it. It will be C:

Restart in Linux

Attach to a NFS or Samba share of the win98 directory on the CD, on a hard drive or otherwise. Mount the fat16 partition, and copy the win98 stuff over.

Reboot to dos and delete the primary partition (non-dos) and create a new one in its place. Reboot it again, and format it. Switch to D: which is where you saved the win98 and install.

 

[Syborg1211]

of course you could just buy an external hard drive and save a bunch of trouble.

 

[lowtech1]

You could use Dos to access any puters on the network that have Win98 Cab files on hdd or a CDrom drive, then use xcopy.

 

[oldfart]

Just curious, what Linux GUI's have you tried? Gnome and KDE need a decent PC to run well. There are some such as Afterstep and Windowmaker that are very lightweight. Should be fine on a laptop.

 

[astroview]

It also doesn't matter what Gui i use because my Xconfiguration file never works really well. Things are really messed up, like the resolution and colors.

KDE is slow, never got around to trying Windowmaker.

 

[lowtech1]

Both Gnome and KDE is good, but Gnome GUI is stronger.

Personaly I prefer KDE over Gnome, but many others including Sun Microsystem beting on Gnome, because of its (over) use of graphics.

I second astroview that X dont work as well as Linux/UNIX command line.

 

[oldfart]

I think astroview's problem is getting the X sever to work on his laptop, not the GUI. I've done it a few times. It can be a bit of a pain on a laptop. KDE is a nice functional stable window manager. It and Gnome require 16 bit color depth and a decent system to run them. Windowmaker or Afterstep will run fine in 8 bit. On an old or low end laptop, this is a good setup. Astroview, if you still want to try and get the GUI going, try Windowmaker and see how it is. BTW, what Linux distro are you using?

 

[astroview]

I'm using Red Hat. I got KDE running at 256 colors in a small screen that was 800x600. I love console, but some things are just better in a GUI.

It was problems with my screen, I don't think it works well at all in linux, so I can't really get it working.

Thanks for all the help.