How can i get 98se working on a new motherboard??

[imported_Dx]

Right now i put 98se on a new 320GB sata drive and got it to start by using the following in the system.ini file.
[386Enh]
MaxPhysPage=30000

The motherboard is a asus P5E with the x38 chipset, all i'm concerned with getting to work is the video, mouse and anything for the chipset that may help.

Also how can i manually add the MBR for a dual boot?

 

[htne]

Have you considered running 98SE in a VM (virtual machine)?

 

[ViRGE]

Originally posted by: htne
Have you considered running 98SE in a VM (virtual machine)?

Ditto to this. Win9x has a slew of problems with newer machines, particularly with 48bit LBA and problems relating to the high frequencies of today's processors.

 

[QuixoticOne]

Yeah I'd see if VMWARE or Virtual PC or something could just run 98 in a VM.

You should have mouse, keyboard, emulated basic SVGA support (maybe no fancy Voodoo 3D or whatever), serial ports, and maybe a few other things depending on your VM software.

 

[heymrdj]

Go emulation. Use Vista or XP as your main OS, namely Vista.

 

[nerp]

If I recall, 98 got weird with 512mb of ram and would completley crumble to pieces with 1GB an dup.

 

[imported_Dx]

VM has to run inside a OS right? That is of no help to me. I need a dual boot with two OS's that can copy each other without problems. XP can't copy xp and i dought vista would copy a OS and delete xp without problems.

What i do is store two OS's from a dual boot setup on another HDD then when i need to replace a system that gets corrupted it takes 5 mins to delete that system and use the other to copy the fresh backup in place.

 

[Shawn]

All you need are partitions. Put windows on a 50-60GB partition and use the rest of the hard drive for your data. It is then fairly easy to reinstall an OS.

 

[MegaVovaN]

I don't understand what you want to do...how about running TWO virtual machines, one 98 other XP?

 

[imported_Dx]

Originally posted by: Shawn
All you need are partitions. Put windows on a 50-60GB partition and use the rest of the hard drive for your data. It is then fairly easy to reinstall an OS.

I don't reinstall, i use a fresh uncorrupted backup that copys over in 5 mins. reinstalling windows and all the drivers and software is what i'm avoiding.

 

[xSauronx]

why?

/its windows 98, everyone else is thinking it.

 

[imported_Dx]

NM, i got XPsp2 to copy it's self to another hdd for backup.

 

[Nothinman]

NM, i got XPsp2 to copy it's self to another hdd for backup.

You should be using an imaging tool, IMO preferably one that boots from a LiveCD, for that anyway.

 

[ChronoReverse]

Why would you need Win98 and WinXP then? Win98 can't read NTFS. Why not just two copies of XP?