I'd love to run Wine or VMware or even QEMU. The problem is that old kids games are *very* performance intensive and unforgiving. I believe I've had problems even running them in WinNT and Win2000.
Old glittery whiz bang kids educational software are about the last holdout that mandates an authentic Windows 95/98 system. Chris On Wed, 2006-03-29 at 22:07 -0800, Gus Wirth wrote: > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > I need to make a Windows 98 partition on my > > Debian laptop for my daughter. > > > > I prepared some room then noticed Win98 > > insists on blowing away the entire hard drive!!! > > > > If I install Win98 FIRST will it also take over > > the hard drive and require Partition Magic to > > shrink it? > > > > What is best way to go there? > > Why do you need Win98? If it is just to run some programs, have you > tried to run them under WINE <http://www.winehq.org> first? Or check > with the CodeWeavers <http://www.codeweavers.com> site to see if it is > commercially supported (the Code Weaver guys back the WINE project). > > If you absolutely have to run Win98, consider instead a virtual machine. > VMware <http://www.vmware.com> makes their VMware Player freely > available. Someone like me with VMware could create a virtual machine > for you and you could run it on your laptop without risk to your Linux > installation. It won't have the same performance as a native install but > that probably doesn't matter. > > Gus > > --
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