On Sat, 12 Sep 2009 04:09:15 -0400, "Ben Myers"
wrote:

As mentioned by another poster, Windows 98 must be installed on
a primary DOS partition, marked as "Active".

Ben

.... not quite exactly, but usually is so said (not to have problems

Well, actually Win9x can be mounted/installed on ANY partition/disk
even slave & secondary & non bootable Fat or Fat32 you want & it can
be booted from any bootable media from Bios if that media contains
Io.sys & Msdos.sys with a propper path set to win folder.

I made myself years ago a bootable CD-Rom running minimal win95B
installation for rescue purposes entirely running from RAM (no disk
needed :-) http://users.volja.net/image/Files/ResQsys.htm (see bottom
page) ... for older computers (having between 64 to 512Mb ram, single
core cpu ... sometimes it can be useful for cloning win9x or WinXP on
Fat32 installations on Ide HDs up to 132Mb & files up to 2GB ...
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