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

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astroview

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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?
 
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.

 

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.

 
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.
 
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.
 

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.








 
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?
 
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.
 
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