Hello everyone OT but just thought I'd warn others who are thinking of adding more ram (in excess of iGB) and dual-booting Win95 or 98.
Installing more ram, new nvidia graphics card and SB Live! 5.1 in Linux was basically trouble-free and certainly didn't break anything or prevent booting into linux. OTH it was a real headache with Win98SE! It was running slower and when I tried to install the drivers for the graphics card and rebooted it hung during the boot process. I tried all sorts of things to no avail, so I formatted the hd and reinstalled the OS. Everything seemed OK so I thought this time I'll install the sound card drivers before the graphics card - no boot: "not enough memory..."! After trying everything I could think of, I went through the whole reformat hd, reinstall OS, install sound/graphics drivers, no reboot process three more times - by which time I was tearing my hair out! It turns out that thats what Windoze 95 & 98 do if you have more than 1GB of ram! Editing the system.ini file to tell Windoze that you only have 768MB ram solves the problem. Finally got sound and the graphics going in Windoze - phew! Try to install the Adaptec scsi host adaptor drivers for my scanner: "There is not enough memory..." Jeez! I thought that was sorted! After more hair-pulling and gnashing of teeth, I read one of the scsi inf files only to find that installation is told to fail with that error message after the year 2000 (then I realise I haven't installed it at all this year because I hadn't been using it)! Not that I care, I've got it going in linux anyway and I only use Windoze for accounting. Configuring this hardware in linux was a breeze (well... apart from the scsi host adaptor - twas a matter of finding the right "easy-to-understand" howto) and the system never stopped working. And people say it can be difficult to get hardware working in linux!!!! Rant over... thanks for listening and be warned... skinky -- But what ... is it good for? (Engineer at the Advanced Computing Systems Division of IBM, 1968, commenting on the microchip)
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