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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