Hi, I was able to install windows 98 successfully on a 2.4gig machine
actually. However some windows 98 machines might have issues with larger
hard drives which requires some kind of patch from the manufactures to
work around.

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> -----Original Message-----
> From: piclist-bounces@mit.edu [mailto:piclist-bounces@mit.edu] On
Behalf Of Jose
> Da Silva
> Sent: 13 November 2004 17:19
> To: Microcontroller discussion list - Public.
> Subject: Re: [OT] Strategy For Eventually Converting From Win?? to
Linux ?
> 
> On Friday 12 November 2004 02:28 pm, Bob Axtell wrote:
> > I spent a week a month ago trying to upgrade a home Win98 system
through
> > Windows update, and never
> > was able to update the first byte. I finally had to reformat the
drive
> > and install Win2K.
> 
> If win98 still works and you need updates, you can have microsoft mail
you a
> security cdrom update for free... someone else on the list pointed out
the
> URL a month or two ago.
> 
> Sidenote:
> I've noted that if your computer is beyond a certain speed, you may
have
> troubles installing win98 and or os/2 warp3... for example, both of
them are
> able to install okay on a 200mhz machine. Warp3 has problems booting
from
> harddrive on a 2g machine but boots okay from floppy onto the 2g
machine
> while win98 can't boot or install onto a 2ghz machine.  I believe it
goes
> back to driver loading and the use of lowlevel DOS calls to figure out
> timing loops (looping 0xffff loops on a 100mhz machine may delay
enough time
> to do what is needed to wait for something, but waiting 0xffff loops
on a
> 2ghz machine is most likely not enough time to wait for whatever
hardware to
> setup correctly).... in other words, if your computer is way too fast
for
> win98, you are reduced to choosing a more modern os such as win2k or
xp....
> os/2 warp4 or ecomstation I believe work okay on the faster machines
too.
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