Rick, philo had it right when he said:

To install Win98 ...remove some memory...
and try your setup with 512 megs of RAM or less.

Before adding the rest of the RAM...
do the vcache setting "tweak" as mentioned by another respondent.

Would also add this; be SURE to use the MaxPhysPage parameter under
SYSTEM.INI [386enh] but with one caveat, try a number lower that 40000,
e.g. MaxPhysPage=39999. 40000 limits seen memory to 1GB but I've
encountered a system which would NOT boot until that number was lowered
by one!

BTW, have also installed 98se on numerous PC's using this method and it
ALWAYS worked. And here is yet another item; there is a fellow who makes
a patch for SE which allows USE of that extra memory. I use his patch on
two IBM T41 laptops with 1.5GB RAM, a tower with 1GB RAM and it works
like a charm. ALL RAM is recognized (though never needed). Here's a
link: http://members.aol.com/rloew1/
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"Rick Chauvin" wrote in message
...
Even though there are many links and procedures that speak to being
able to
run 2 GB of RAM on W98SE in a standard installation, myself having
tried
every single one of them at one time, I have never ever found a way to
be
able to 'physically' even have the second stick of 1 GB RAM plugged in
on
boot up without getting one or another kind of fatal error.. Even 1.5
GB was squirrelly. I imagine it was some older or specific hardware
setup that allowed that combination of settings to limit the seen RAM
to 1 GB or they wouldn't of came up with that info in the first place,
but again I've never seen anyone actually accomplish it... and believe
me, I tried everything! ...1 GB was the most I was ever able to run
'stable' on W98SE, which really was plenty for it anyway.. and yes I
know in a dual boot 98/XP situation where XP uses 2 GB just fine you
wold want to keep the 2 GB installed... but....

Now with the advent of running Virtual PC's to do it, then that's
another
story I hear, of which I haven't tried myself yet.

Rick

"C.D. Koger" wrote in message

To improve the sluggishness of WinXP I bought an AMD Athlon dual core
machine with 2 Gb RAM and 512 Mb video and wanted to install a
98SE/XP
dual boot system.
1th disappointment: swapping drives C and D isn't offered by the
Award
BIOS anymore, so I'll need a boot manager (I thought). But soon a new
obstacle appeared: with 2048 Mb of RAM, the 98SE installer pertains
there isn't enough memory to properly setup the O/S and suggests that
I
first remove the resident software to free some space!
Is there a workaround for this?

Cornelis Koger