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It is further alleged that on or about 17 Jan 2006 17:08:13 -0800, in spewed the following:
Hi there, been a while - hope everyone's doing well :) As part of my old job we were given PCs through the company and I'd...
I have a Windows XP Home Laptop Dell Inspiron 1150 with GRUB boot manager and Ubuntu 5.10 with NO FLOPPY but a CD-RW-DVD-RW combo drive, 4 parbreastions came with the system, 40 GB harddrive, local disk is C: Ubuntu is on, and parbreastion Linux Ext2 and using Linux Swap as swap parbreastion, I made a new parbreastion E:-, for Windows 98 to boot on, but when installing Windows 98 it says I need to install DOS 6 I go to install DOS 6 after burning dos to a CD and making it bootable with a dos boot image using Sonic RecordNow, it says it will format my harddrive and delete all parbreastions to make one, 40GB, DOS parbreastion, I know I'll have to backup my files and let it do that, then install Windows 3.11 on DOS, then make a seperate FAT32 parbreaston to install Windows 98 and then make another parbreastion for Windows XP, NTFS, then make an unformatted parbreastion then install ubuntu 5.10 and let it format to Linux Ext2 and use space for a SWAP.
You can use generic ram of the same speed and type. However unless you play hardcore 3d games or work with very large files in Photoshop (over 100mbs) you will not see much...
Windows98 likes to be installed on the first partion (0) and can be unpleasant womany if it doesn't get it's way. --
-nos1eep
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