Subj : Re: Win98SE install?
To   : Christer Jacobsson
From : Alan Zisman
Date : Sat Jun 03 2000 02:35 am

-=> Christer Jacobsson wrote to Alan Zisman <=-

 CJ> OK, so then I can buy a Win98 upgrade kit and install it, that's good.

 CJ> But now I'm in a sort of quandary... The software supplier that I often
 CJ> use when buying here in Sweden has *both* the Win98 upgrade and
 CJ> the Win38SE upgrade
 CJ> for the same price. Now I have heard somewhere that 98SE
 CJ> has been more problematic to install and use than the plain
 CJ> 98 (1st edition).

 CJ> So which version should I buy? I'm only going to use my 98
 CJ> install for running some games and accessing Internet
 CJ> through my ADSL modem via an intel 10/100+ network card, so
 CJ> I won't boot 98 very often.

The most-often-reported problem w. SE is in the Shutdown routine... I'd say
that if you have no need for SE's Internet Connection Sharing (it sounds like
you don't), then the original W98 will do just fine.

 CJ> Btw, how is Win2000 doing when it comes to gaming? Can I
 CJ> run games under Win2000 that runs just fine under 98/98SE?

W2K should do just fine w. DirectX-based games. Less good with DOS-games that
want direct hardware access. Any older game that requires MS-DOS Mode (or a
boot disk) is definately out-- though you COULD run it from a boot floppy (or a
NT/W2K boot to DOS)-- as long as you're able to access your hard drive that way
(i.e. an older DOS boot and a FAT32 partition is not going to work).

 CJ> Ok. Suppose I first install 98 or 98SE on the Win3.1
 CJ> partition: then 98 will get much of it's information
 CJ> regarding folders, programs etc. from the 3.1 setup. Can I
 CJ> then re-install 98 on another partition, telling it *not*
 CJ> to migrate applications and such from my old 98/3.1
 CJ> installation but install itself in a virgin condition, i.e.
 CJ> with it's supplied folders and defaults?

Why would you want to do that? What's the advantage of having two Win98
installations? In any event, I seem to remember having trouble installing W98
into any folder other than the default-- this is easy to do with W95, but my
(somewhat unreliable) memory is that I couldn't do it with W98.

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