could someone please point me or tell me what i need to do regarding linux..
its unfortunate but I need to install win 98 urgently.
ie i have a partitioned notebook with boot magic linux and in95, I
understand I will need to boot from floppy.
What floppy do i need?
how do i make it, if I dont already have it?
will i have such a disasteer that i will end up formatting?
tx
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Jonathan Chetwynd
Special needs teacher / web accessibility consultant
education and outreach working group member, web accessibility initiative,
W3C
----- Original Message -----
From: Declan Moriarty <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 31, 2000 2:53 PM
Subject: Re: VMware...
> On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, marc jenkinson wrote:
>
> > > > vmware is great, but my personal experience is that it take too much
> > > > overhead to run on a laptop. I have a 2xPIII 500 that is runs on
and is
> > > > slow...
> > > > On my Toshiba Tecra 8000 (pII 300) it is just way too slow to be
useful
> > > > for me.
> > > Let me guess - you didn't install the vmware-tools. I am using vmware
on a
> > > Thinkpad 600 (PII 266) and my AMD K6-2 350 @ home and am quite happy
with
> > > it.
> > Ah!! Another K6 user. A couple of questions. I tried loading Win 95 on
> > my toshiba with a K6-2 300.
> > I gave up after I had 2 crashes in vmware. It just came up stating I
> > triggered a bug and to send a log file to vmware.
> > I does state that it is not stable on win 95 with the K6 when I start
> > up. What is your experience?
>
> I run a K6/2-350 on one box here, and ran into a real nasty. M$ Windows
> would crash during setup (1st reboot)- "Failed to initialise device - IOS"
>
> There proved to be a bugfix for Windows because the K6/2-350 performs one
> instruction 10 times faster than a Pentium, and screws things up. AMD
fixed it
> in the K6/2-400. Could it be lurking there on your processor? I believe
linux
> had some problems with it too (maybe a week or so ;-). That's the question
to
> go asking people at VMware.
>
> --
> Regards,
>
> Declan Moriarty
>
