austin man
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 04:41 PM |
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I us a programme called vmware that can be run within XP you install 98 into the vmware emulator
Life is like a bowl of fruit, funny how all the weird looking ones are left alone
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mangogrooveworkshop
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 05:27 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Davey D
why on earth would you want to remove XP, and install 98?  98 is so outdated now, that you will struggle to find drivers for new devices. It is
also built on a crap flakey platform 
Our telco equipment as well as a lot of industrial equipment runs at 9600 baud max.
We use hyper terminal and that is very stable on 98. As well as that the toughbook he is using doesnt have the poke to run later ms offerings.
And as for emulators and workarounds on newer laptops are not very stable.....standing at a dead telco cab outage at 1 am in the morning with a flashy
piece of dumb silicon is not what you want.
The dam thing wants to connect to every wifi in the area instead of the VIRTUAL serial port.
a 1000 £ laptop almost got crunched by me at midnight last night.
Pulled the £20 toughbook out and a few mins the outage is cleared...no fuss.
problem is the two icons for telco and Mega Squirt are almost the same..resulting in the squirt screen coming up
The moral of the story is not all older equipment will work with a new laptop as it is either too fast or the drivers don't exist. So there is a
good reason to use laptops of the same age as the gear you are formatting.
[Edited on 21-5-10 by mangogrooveworkshop]
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plantman
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 07:18 PM |
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You're not alone in wanting to do that......
You first make a windows 98 boot disc (floppy)
I think you can make it using you're 98 cd or just download it from the web.
Then use that boot disc to delete the xp partion.
Then you set your lappie to boot from cd drive and put your cd in and start your laptop
It should install windows
You may have to create a partition with the floppyy drive
have fun
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iank
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| posted on 21/5/10 at 08:32 PM |
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W2K and XP Drivers are apparently available according to this advert (doesn't say where you can get them unfortunately).
http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/PANASONIC-TOUGHBOOK-CF-27-FULLY-RUGGED-LAPTOP-/250636205183
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Madinventions
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| posted on 22/5/10 at 12:00 AM |
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Don't forget about www.devid.info! Get the 'hardware Info' for the device from device manager and
paste it into this website. If there's a driver out there for your hardware - this will find it. Works for me every time.
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Madinventions
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| posted on 22/5/10 at 12:06 AM |
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Don't forget about www.devid.info! Get the 'hardware Info' for the device from device manager and
paste it into this website. If there's a driver out there for your hardware - this will find it. Works for me every time.
Ed.
Mojo build diary: http://www.madinventions.co.uk
Solo music project: Syrrenfor http://www.reverbnation.com/syrrenfor
View my band website:
http://www.shadowlight.org.uk
http://www.eastangliankitcars.co.uk/
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Liam
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| posted on 23/5/10 at 06:52 PM |
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Er, if you can't boot from a CD now, you wont be able to after you've formatted your hard drive either! Then your laptop will be
essentially a complicated brick. You need to fix that issue first. Hopefully you can find XP drivers, but if not it might be new laptop time (or
slightly newer second hand). Surely if it's so old you cant find XP drivers for the hardware, it's pretty tired anyway?
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