[gotrootdude]

Take your windows desktop with you, run it from a CD. http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/11/206/

[brendandonhu]

Very cool, bookmarked. Will try it out when I get bored (probably by this weekend) and have a few hours on my hands.

[Stoner]

Hi gotrootdude:

Nice!

also check out this Linux boot from CD :

http://www.knopper.net/knoppix/index-en.html

Jack

[codexaenir]

When I looked at that win98 on cd tutorial.. I left immediately. Not only is this quite complicated... but the translation is confusing.. and bound to trouble. Get knoppix.

[brendandonhu]

And a tip i have posted before. Make sure you download the English version of Knoppix, I found out I am not the only person that has made that mistake!

And yes this is complicated but I still want to try it.

[Stoner]

Another Linux boot CD is at:

http://www.dc.fit.qut.edu.au/adios/adios-bootcd.html

It's called Adios, boots alittle slower than Knoppix,and the apps seem to load from the CD a little slower. I haven't had a lot of time to play with it. It does look like a nice distro. The wallpaper is a lot nicer than the mostly black Knoppix wallpaper.
I think it's worth a download!


Jack Stone

[Stoner]

Originally posted by brendandonhu:
And a tip i have posted before. Make sure you download the English version of Knoppix, I found out I am not the only person that has made that mistake!

And yes this is complicated but I still want to try it.

The windows boot CD.
Give us a report when you get it up and going. I started into it, but it was more involved than the time I could put into it.
Also, I heard a comment about hardware changes being a problem?? Supposedly the Windows boot CD is particular to the hardware it was built on. Know anything about that?

Jack Stone

[brendandonhu]

Thats probably because of drivers, the drivers for your hardware must be on the cd.

One big use of this would be troublesooting. If someons windows goes kaput, you could use this as a tool for fixing it. Thats how I use knoppix.
BTW right now I am downloading the brand new version of knoppix, its 28% done and for being so popular I am getting good speeds (50-140 KB/s).

I will report back when I get to it, I would like to do it this weekend but obviously it will take some time.

[rivincarn]

Hi

Does this apply to Windows me?

[gotrootdude]

I really don't see why it wouldn't..

[brendandonhu]

Originally posted by rivincarn:
Hi

Does this apply to Windows me?

Nope, its for 95B, 95C and 98/98SE. You can do it on Windows ME if you know what your doing probably, the files (especiall the DOS realated ones) are a bit different though.

[brendandonhu]

I can't do it, I don't have a full windows CD only restore disks

[brendandonhu]

Oops.
I got a full win98 cd and tried to do this. I got through a few of the steps, then it said rename all win.com files. I was a bit confused, so made backups and did as it said. Reboot, and of course DOS mode and a pile of errors. Then I couldnt find my win.com.bak file to restore it! grrr
So I went to dads house, found Knoppix CD, made bootdisk. Used knoppix cd to get online, find out how to fix it. Searched the hd for win.com.old and discovered the reason it wasnt in dos was because i named it win.old.com. So copied that to a floppy, went to DOS, xcopy to C:\Windows, and did set path= blah blah blah.

That was hell
Surely there is an ISO or bin/cue of this bootable cd somewhere?

[gotrootdude]

I don't have any systems running win 98 otherwise I'd do it. Maybe it's time to build another.

[brendandonhu]

I errrm have a ISO of 98 if you want it and send me the ISO if you get this thing working.
I mean you have to use your own CD Key/Serial on the 98 because it would be illegal if you didn't. (Read:PM Me if you dont have).

Just kiddin.