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Rod Speed wrote:

> SmakDaddy <archangel@engineer.com> wrote
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>>>Might see how viable 256K of ram is and install XP instead.
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>>depending on what its to be used for,you might get away with installing a user 
>>friendly (well, friendly fora linux flavour) linux distrobutuon like mandriva 
>>or something.
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> Nar, the owner is a pretty naive user.
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>>you can pretty much guarantee there will be free-to-download hardware specific 
>>or compatible generic drivers for all the hardware on the laptop.
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> Its a desktop.
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>>also depends  on the purpous though. if its for internet, email, and word, 
>>then something like mandriva will do all that easily. if its to run games and 
>>stuff, that xp option sounds a lot better...
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> Yeah, particularly for the camera etc, XP or SE is the way to go
> IMO. Main advantage with XP over SE is that it will be easier for
> me to fix as required, mainly because of the install in place with XP.
> SE is a tad dinosaury in that area. Quite adequate for their use tho. 
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Not sure about XP since you only have 256k RAM.
Can the RAM be upgraded?
Anyone know what the min RAM is for XP?

Do you have a regular Win98 CD and upgrade CD to Win98se?
Or a Win98 CD Full Version (if they made one)?
If so dump the restore CD and repartition the Drive to one Partition.
Then install Win98(se) and or upgrade to Win98se.
You should be all set from there.

I think the problem was you were looking at the wrong CD trying to run 
a Win98 CD (Restore CD) on a system that has been ugraded to Win98se.
It wanted to see the Win98se CD and not Win98 unless it asks for it.

Kevin