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Multiboot machine?
inane:
My experience with 98 is that it's faster up until the point you install ANYTHING.. at ALL or spend any time online. Then it begins it's dragging along like that guy from nantucket :D. also I've noticed that 98 performs better on Coppermine Intel chips and P2s than it does on P4s or AMDs comparatively to Linux. Although it's my understanding that P4s were almost a downgrade hehe. It's a desktop OS, what do you expect? It's GREAT if you plan on not networking at all.
Aloone_Jonez:
As far as stuff affecting the speed of Winodows I think it depends on what you install, fonts slow it down loads and so do shitty 3rd party pieces of software that clog the registry up. OpenOffice shouldn't give me any problems in this respect, I also plan to install ABIWord, 7 Zip, Inksape, Ghost Script and Ghost Script viewer, Acrobat reader.
Don't worry I don't plan to connect it directly to the Internet and it I do it won't be directly, it'll be via my XP/Linux box.
One thing I've noticed though is the ATI Rage card rules, it's only a 650MHz AMD but it kicks my 1800MHz Intel machine's arse into orbit when it comes to graphics. I think I buy a cheap graphics card - anything's got to be better than my shitty on-board adaptor.
My next OS installation will be a Linux, I don't know whether I'll be Ubuntu or Vector Linux SOHO, I think I'll go for the latter first and see how I get along.
Orethrius:
Aloone, I was wondering - why are you bothering with the headaches of '98 for the functionality of DOSBox? I've not had a problem with it; additionally, I can say that it emerges neatly under Gentoo, having added it myself.
Aloone_Jonez:
http://dosbox.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php?page=SystemRequirements
How fast's your PC?
It's only a 650MHz AMD - no way near powerful enough to handle protected mode games.
Also try running the classic DOS Quake under DOSBox and you'll see what I mean - even on 3.2GHz when run at 320x200 it's too fucking slow!
One thing I am experimenting with is DOSEmu it uses virtualisation instead of 100% emulation so it's a hell of a lot faster (Quake runs at full speed at a reasonable resolution) but the price you pay is compatability and it's not only DOS stuff I'm having problems with, some Win 9x programs won't run on an NT OS.
Anyway I think I've discovered the problem, I think lots of the stuff I've being trying to install requires Windows 98 SE like MS Word/Excel/Power Point Viewers for example. I'll concentrate on Linux for now then I'll aquire a copy of Win 98SE from a friend.
Aloone_Jonez:
Now Windows 98 setup one big fuck-off 20GB FAT32 partition and I've managed to resize it down to 2.68GB. I want to create many partitions for my OSes to live on but I'm having problems, I can't seem to create any more than 5, is this normal?
Is there a way to have any more or I could just connect another hard drive though it'd be a pain in the arse?
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