Hello, I am new and can tell I'm going to like this place . I am trying to install windows 98 SE on an older computer. I went through the installation process and when it rebooted it gave me an error that I had insufficient memory. I did some research and found out that even on SE if you have 1 GB or more of RAM it will throw this error. The microsoft article prompted me to modify a system.ini file, but I don't have one in my Windows 98 Installation directory. I tried creating the file using command line according to microsofts articles and it kept giving errors. I finally gave up and typed one in and I still get there. What's going on here?

The system.ini file is in the windows folder. There are topics about it: "Run 9x/ME with > 1 GB RAM" and "How to install Windows 98 in modern motherboards using more than 1 GB".

 

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/95815-important-stickified-pinned-959898-seme-topics/?p=641992

This -

http://www.msfn.org/board/forum/8-windows-9x-me/

...has this -

http://www.msfn.org/board/topic/95815-important-stickified-pinned-959898-seme-topics/

Which has exactly two Topics on the subject. You'd be amazed that so many users have nGig of RAM installed. I have 2GiB myself. It's not as hard as you think.

 

HTH

 

(ehhh... schwups beat me to it)

Do a little looking (very fast) first. Revisit this topic IF you have problesm. But I bet you won't.

P.S. If you find no need to ask any more in THIS topic, do come back and say it's SOLVED by using the other topic help.

Actually, it may be anything higher than 768 MB.