<OT> Re: can't load windoze

Leon Goldstein metapsych
Wed Mar 14 10:00:26 PDT 2007


Net Llama! wrote:

>On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
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>>Tim Wunder wrote:
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>>>On Wednesday 14 March 2007 7:25:19 am Tony Alfrey wrote:
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>><tony describes failure to see win98 system CD on Gigabyte MB>
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>>>>Does anyone have a clue of where I should look?
>>>>Thanks.
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>>>My guess is that you won't be able to install Win98 on that new equipment,
>>>after all, Win98 is nearly a 10 year old O/S.
>>>
>>>Tim
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>>Hmm,.. an interesting thought.  The motherboard is a 2004-vintage board.
>> I'll try to see if I can find a Win2000 or an XP disk and see if it
>>has the same problem.
>>At this point, I'm trying to find out why it won't even "see" the disk.
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>Because its windows and it sucks?  Tony, can you take this sillyness to 
>general where it belongs?  If i wanted to read about lame windoze bugs, 
>I'd read my email at work.
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Installing Win 98 on a multi-boot Linux system is sillyness?  I guess 
I'm silly too.
I need Win 98 to run my income tax program and OCR,  a proprietary pet 
microchip management app, to be able to download and flash firmware 
upgrades from time to time, and unfortunately will have to until 
CrossOver achieves full Win compatibility.



-- 
Leon A. Goldstein

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