I would scrap installing a outdated unsupported OS (Win98) and investigate using Crossover Office from http://www.codeweavers.com/ . I would even try wine before I would install Win98. Good luck with what ever you do or decide to do.
My $0.02. Michael Miller On 3/9/06, Matthew Jarvis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know this is contrary to what we all want, but... > > Converting my IBM Thinkpad 600x to Windows to replace a crappy old > generic p.o.s. > > It had Ubuntu on it but I'm trying to install Win98 to run our > application, just like the old one. > > The Win98 install, Setup, Format and FDISK all fail to want to deal with > the hard drive. > > Ran SpinRite on it and it did find some errors, all recoverable. > > When trying to boot the Win98 install CD, I get this message and a > frozen machine: > > GRUB Loading stage1.5. > > BRUB loading, please wait.... > Error 17 > > Research says that this means the Grub loader doesn't know what to do > with the disk it's running on, or something like that. > > I don't want Grub anymore anyhoo, so how can I get around this to get > back to (trying) installing Win98 ? > > > -- > Matthew S. Jarvis > IT Manager > Bike Friday - "Performance that Packs." > www.bikefriday.com > 541/687-0487 x140 > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > _______________________________________________ > EUGLUG mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug > _______________________________________________ EUGLUG mailing list [email protected] http://www.euglug.org/mailman/listinfo/euglug
