brianw
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Posted: July 17 2006,15:16 |
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| Quote (compaq1247 @ July 16 2006,23:30) | I want to go back to windows 98. My laptop is old, low-ram, dadada...
I want to reformat the HD. How do I without a floppy? My floppy broke and no longer works. Is there a way I can format using a CD or anything? |
You want to go back to win98 on a low resource machine?
On my Compaq armada 266Mhz 96M ram win98 makes my fan run almost all the time while with DSL it only runs when I am pushing the cpu with graphics intense games or multiple graphics things running (firefox and tkwget and several terminals runing finds and downloading something all at the same time) but usually only when I am playing a game.
I can't even get windows drivers for some pcmcia network cards (that DSL recognizes right away).
What are your system specs? If you use jwm it uses less resources and remove all icons that you don't use regularly helps. Install to HD with a regular install, make a swap partition and install windows to a partition (you would need three partitions but the swap you only need about 128 to 256 and DSL give the rest of 1Gig that leaves 3 gig for windows and you can always use the windows partition from DSL if you need to). This way you could see what the difference is and use each one for a specific purpose if you would like (can always get rid of DSL later again and make another fat partition or make one big one again).
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