Update:

I reported previously that win-98 didn't like creating/putting the
swap file on the original 500 gb primary drive, but it was ok with a
25 gb partition on a secondary (d drive.

I swapped the seconary 25 gb drive with a fresh 500 gb drive
(formatted as a single fat-32 partition, 32kb cluster size, 15 million
total clusters). Win-98 was ok with putting the swap file on it.

I then brought the system memory up to 2 gb, but I get an
"insufficient memory to initilize windows" message early in the
startup process. I then set MaxPhysPage=50000 in system.ini, but
system just reboots. Set it to 40000 and it booted. Set it to 40010
and still seems to only show 1022 mb total memory.

Has anyone gotten win-98 to run with more than 1 gb memory? How?