<OT> Re: can't load windoze

[Tony Alfrey]

Leon Goldstein wrote:
> Net Llama! wrote:
> 
>> On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>  
>>
>>> Tim Wunder wrote:
>>>    
>>>
>>>> On Wednesday 14 March 2007 7:25:19 am Tony Alfrey wrote:
>>>>      
>>>>
>>> <tony describes failure to see win98 system CD on Gigabyte MB>
>>>    
>>>
>>>>> Does anyone have a clue of where I should look?
>>>>> Thanks.
>>>>>        
>>>>>
>>>> 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
>>>>      
>>>>
>>> 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.
>>>    
>>>
>> 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.
>>
> 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

Yes, indeed, here, too (an assembly language IDE for 8051-like chips).

>, to be able to download and flash firmware 
> upgrades from time to time, and unfortunately will have to until 
> CrossOver achieves full Win compatibility.
> 

Problem may be related to bad media.  Found another $^%&# 98 CD (don't 
want to offend Lonnie by divulging the name of the OS) that seems to be 
working so problem may go away.
Thanks!


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