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I've understood all the rest, but never added a bootsector this way. How can I do it? Thanks.

I use just 1 GB, that's why I didn't do it. If I increase it I'll post you. Thanks for your help once more.

Excellent! Thank you very much!

Thank you, dencorso! BTW, if you include MSBATCH.INF into the folder in which you have copied the Win98 install CD to fasten the install process, I wonder if there is any possibility to save into it your own product key (only for your own use, of course).

I took good notice of all this. As it is said, nobody knows everything and "four eyes see more than two". It will be welcome any other contribution for a better tutorial useful to other members. Thank you very much, TooMuchFreeTime! P/S: I had the idea that if you install Millenium MaxPhysPage=40000 is correct, but in the case that you install Windows 98 the dimension should be expressed like this: %10%\system.ini,386Enh,,"MaxPhysPage=30000" Am I wrong?

HOW TO INSTALL WINDOWS 98 IN MODERN MOTHERBOARDS USING MORE THAN 1 GB. If you try to install Windows 98 using more than 512 Mb memory the install operation will not be possible: you simply get a "Lack of memory" message (¿?) and that's all. Nevertheless Windows 98 can be installed successfully by making the computer believe that your memory is below that limit, and the purpose of this tutorial is to explain how to do it. A) INSTALL PROCEDURE.- - Get a DOS boot floppy and verify previously that the file "edit.com" is included into it. - Configure BIOS if needed, in order to set the floppy drive as first boot device (Ctrl+Supr at boot). - Insert the floppy and boot the computer. - If you want to install Windows at the C: drive, create previously the "Windows" folder and the file "system.ini" into it, by typing in the DOS command line: c: md windows cd windows edit system.ini - When the edit screen is open, copy exactly into it the following lines: [386Enh] MaxPhysPage=30000 [vcache] MaxFileCache=393216 - Save "system.ini" and close the program. - Keep inserted the floppy and start normally the install operation. - The floppy must be inserted until reboot. Don't withdraw it when you are required for that by the install program. Let the computer reboot using it. - After reboot you will find again the DOS command line. You must write into it: c: cd windows edit c:\windows\system.ini - When the edit screen is open you will see that the lines you wrote before have been modified. You must restore them copying again the given values, that is: [386Enh] MaxPhysPage=30000 [vcache] MaxFileCache=393216 - Save system.ini, close the program, withdraw the floppy and reboot. The install process will go on. - Insert again the DOS floppy before the next reboot, and leave the computer reboot using the floppy. - One more time, replace again the new values given by the install process, writing in its places MaxPhysPage=30000 and MaxFileCache=393216. - Withdraw the floppy and leave the install process go on normally up to the end. - At first you don't have any problems with the video driver because the install is done in 16-color VGA. You must install the video drivers of your video card to obtain the normal color and definition values. B ) HOW TO SOLVE SOME FREQUENT PROBLEMS. - Maybe you don't find the needed video driver to substitute VGA. You can download a generic one, very simple and easy to install covering most resolutions, from here: http://aokneufi.dyndns.org/chris/tmp/VESA/vbe9x/ - The name of the universal drivers are VBE.VXD and VBEMP.DRV. Mind that they are only meant for pure Windows. If you need to use DOS you must first close Windows using the Start in DOS mode option. - You can find other drivers for large HD, NTFS and other purposes in the posts provided by other members in the previous section of this forum. C) HELPFUL HINTS: - Even if you don't find all needed drivers for Windows 98 and you decide to install XP, it pays keeping both because that duplicity gives you a lot of freedom and makes you feel secure. You can find a tutorial about it here: http://www.msfn.org/board/create-easily-se...er-t118623.html - As said there's a generic video driver which covers most resolutions. That's sufficient if you install Windows 98 only for maintenance and repair of XP. If you don't install any other device you will notice a complete security and an unexpected speed. REMARKS: This is the way I did it. After this first post and all along this thread other members have described excellent alternatives and ideas that I didn't know, in special the way to create a self-installing Windows 98. Go on and read it in their own and well documented words. Please post in this thread any new idea about how to do it better. Thanks!.

As I said IMHO the important thing is making the tutorial useful for anyone who needs it. To make it easier for newbies I decided to put all together in the first post. If moderators believe it should be placed anywhere else, please post it here. Thanks to you all.

Yes. However my guess is that ponch won't like latest corrections : he suggested to use "Primary" instead of "Main", which is correct, where does "Principal" come from? jaclaz It is clear that infalibility is not my strong point. I've rectified it. Thanks again, jaclaz.

jacklaz, ponch and dencorso: I have edited again the tutorial collecting your contributions. It is commonly said "Four eyes see more than two". In this case there are more than four. I also added something concerning disk maintenance at the end of the post. IMHO the important thing is making the tutorial useful for anyone who needs it. Any other improvement will be welcome. Thank you very much.

The mentions to WINNT instead of WINXP were transcription errors with no consequences at all. I wrote it direct from my mind. I have edited the post and rectified it, and also substituted the mention to "delete" by "change the XP mbr", to make it easier the understanding of it to any reader. I've also rectified the download adress. This is the way I knew and so is how I did it. Well, in fact the essential thing is that it works perfect. But it is always good to know that there are better ways for doing things. I like learning. Thank you for your help, jaclaz!

I said "Your motherboard is a new one and does not allow this doubleboot because it has not the essential drivers for Windows 98". I should have said "Maybe your motherboard is a new one and does not allow this doubleboot because it has not the essential drivers for Windows 98". Sorry, fanem008, and happy to know you've found a solution.

Moved to the first post of this thread.

Sorry not to have an answer to your question. If you allow me to abuse of your kindness, would you mind to tell me from where can I download the bootable Win98SE disk image? I am searching for it since long ago. Thank you very much!

I also had a speed problem, and fixed it by installing an USB-PCI card, it was very cheap and I found it very easily last year. The transfer speed increased about 400%, and I didn't need to load any driver. I had installed in my computer an universal USB driver that I found in this forum. HTH

Moved to the first post of this thread.

I forgot to say that it works perfect.

There are only a few stations not using Windows Media, so I deleted Real Player. Real Alternative didn't work properly, at least two years ago, I never tried afterwards. Thank you for your help, Rainyd!

An excellent free program is Faststone Image Viewer. I use it since long ago. You may download it from here: http://www.faststone.org/FSViewerDownload.htm

I've been using since long time ago this freeware program to watch TV: http://www.jlc-software.com/?page=internet_tv.html Since some months ago I only get the needed codecs online using Windows XP and Windows Media 11. It seems the codecs for Windows 98 and WM9 are not available any more on line from Microsoft. I wonder if there is a possibility of downloading the needed codecs to keep them at the HD, so that the program may work without any online downloads. Where could I find them? Thanks.

Hi Chozo4! For the record, my present card is a Geforce Fx5500 and I have no problems at all using the Nvidia drivers downloaded from the adress I said. Good luck!

I only remember that the card that I returned and changed was Nvidia and capacity 256 and was sold to me for Windows 98. Maybe it was a different model. It is rather strange to find such a lot of difficulties. All video cards I used were extremely easy to install. Are you sure that your card is not damaged?

That card is thought for Windows XP. I had a similar experience and at last I changed it for a lower Nvidia model, using the drivers that I found in this forum at this link: http://www.nvworld.ru/drivers/old/WideWin9x.rar No more problems.

A program is always a sequential collection of algorithms, and being a programmer you know that only the most complex ones need an amount of resources not available under Windows 98, which in itself is an excellent OS with a lot of undeveloped possibilities. But business is business...

Main partition 2: drive J, only 3 GB, for possible future experimental purposes, or to use it as working storage unit. I forgot to say that when you create a second main partition in the same HD the one which is active takes letter C and the not active one takes the last letter. The Extended Partition keeps being always in the middle. If you make active partition 2 instead of partition 1 the letter is reversed, that is, partition 1 is renamed with the last letter and partition 2 takes the letter C. HTH

The worst thing you may do is having Windows 98 only in one partition. A good partitioning of an 80 GB disk may be this (I presume doublebooting): Main partition 1: drive C, only 3 GB, for Windows XP (without Program Files) and doubleboot root files. Main partition 2: drive J, only 3 GB, for possible future experimental purposes, or to use it as working storage unit. Extended partition: Drive D, 6 GB for program Files (both for XP and Windows 98), and also for Windows 98 (clone). Drive E, 3 GB for Windows 98 SE having only the OS, to rebuild this unit you may format it from any of the others and rebuild from scratch. This unit is the one for normal use and to be used for cloning into D and G. Drive F, 3 GB for Win386.swp, pagefile.sys of XP, all temp folders, including Temporary Internet Files. All Win98 ones may be moved using COA2.exe, and the ones belonging to XP by editing the registry using Registry Crawler. No temp folder, history file, or cookies folder should be left on drive C. This way drive F may be formatted quick using Autoexec.bat at every start or Windows 98, or deleted using the command "del" if XP is used. Most viruses are avoided this way. This idea is copied from Linux. Drive G: 25 GB, for My Documents (and also music, photos, etc) of Windows 98, leaving a link to it on the desktop of XP. The My documents folder of XP is too dependent of the OS and your docs are more secure this way. In this drive you may install also a second copy of Windows 98 (clone). Drive H: 25 GB, for all Application Data of Windows 98, common to the OS installed on units C (clone), E (main) and G (clone). And also and essentially to keep .rar copies of both OS, folders and absolutely everything existing at the C, D and E files. Drive I: 28 GB used to keep the install files of Windows 98 and also all install files of each and every apps used, both for Win98 and XP. As there is a lot of place left, you may keep here if you wish also a second copy of the backup files (from drive H) and My Documents (from drive G). It is convenient to have a second, third or fourth HD into external cases and connected using USB2 only for storage purposes. If your USB works too slow you may install an IDE USB card and the speed increases about 50 times. It is easy to find and very cheap. Of course you must keep 3 floppies to boot drives D, E or G in case of need, and also a floppy to boot XP (you only need to copy in it all C:\ root files, but never pagefile.sys) . To clone the HD I think it is better not to clone the complete HD but the partitions, one by one, formatting previously the new HD using Partition Manager or Fdisk.exe under DOS. Afterwards you only have to copy-paste. If you prefer copying using DOS, the freeware Xxcopy.exe is an excellent substitute for Xcopy.exe. "Synchronize it!" and "Comparator Pro" are two Windows 98 programs which allow you to update your cloned HD without copying everything again but only what is changed. BTW when you check your HD against the copy you always find some surprises: unwanted files introduced without your knowledge, or deleted or modified files that you were not aware of any change, in many cases altered via Internet without any advice. HTH