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Old October 26th 10, 04:56 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Paul in Houston TX
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HI,
Its been a while since I ran win 98 and I want
to install on a small partition.
What is _typical_ hdd space needed for the o/s?
Can win 98 run on fat 16?
Can win 98 se run on fat 16?

tia
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Old October 26th 10, 05:46 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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It have to be FAT32 And 32mb of RAM for 98 run it install!
Can be on a FAT16 if you are upgrading From 95 to 98

A small partition 5GB is good, but it will go on 2GB ok!

If you have newer OS like ME, 2000, or xp it will not install for it have
to be install first, before a newer OS!
for I have a PC with 98 and 2000 that I would like to add ME too but old
wall!

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Old October 26th 10, 05:54 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Bill in Co
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Paul in Houston TX wrote:
HI,
Its been a while since I ran win 98 and I want
to install on a small partition.
What is _typical_ hdd space needed for the o/s?


From my old dusty memory, I think about 2 GB. But I'd sure go higher than
that, especially if you plan on installing ANY programs. So maybe 10 GB,
or better yet, 20 GB. (As for installing programs on another partition,
that seems to be of little value - in fact, it's a bit disadvantageous).

Can win 98 run on fat 16?
Can win 98 se run on fat 16?


Probably, but why would you want to limit yourself that way? That's a
pretty severe limitation.


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Old October 26th 10, 06:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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"Paul in Houston TX" wrote in message
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HI,
Its been a while since I ran win 98 and I want
to install on a small partition.
What is _typical_ hdd space needed for the o/s?
Can win 98 run on fat 16?
Can win 98 se run on fat 16?


Of course both can be installed on a FAT16 or a FAT32 partition, but why
would you want to use FAT16? FAT16 cannot support a partition larger
than 2GB, and will use a much larger cluster size, wasting a huge amount
of disk space in most cases.

Just to install Win98 requires less than a GB...more like half a
GB....but you will quickly run out of disk space if you install anything
else, and even more quickly if you have only a small amount of RAM
installed. I would not install on anything smaller than 2GB, and
preferably more.
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Old October 26th 10, 07:32 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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I have a old 40 GB WD on a Compaq Presario 5070 and have have run on a 4540
to with a 128 MB Ram

Make it 2 partition a 20 GB X 20 GB at FAT 32
I run 98 X 200 in my hell you may do a 98 X ME on it

Need to know the PC Name and Model to help you get the Drive for the Hard
Ware on it for win98 OK!


O windows 98 can install on a 32 GB partition ok!
But run show on a partition pass 32 GB!



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Old October 26th 10, 08:00 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Paul in Houston TX
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Hot-Text wrote:
It have to be FAT32 And 32mb of RAM for 98 run it install!
Can be on a FAT16 if you are upgrading From 95 to 98

A small partition 5GB is good, but it will go on 2GB ok!

If you have newer OS like ME, 2000, or xp it will not install for it
have to be install first, before a newer OS!
for I have a PC with 98 and 2000 that I would like to add ME too but
old wall!


I completely forgot about win 95.
I will try that instead of 98.
XP2 ntfs is my real OS.
Guess I could install 95 on another hdd completely.
I have a box of old 40g hdds.
It may not run on this machine though.
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Old October 26th 10, 08:24 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
J. P. Gilliver (John)
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In message , Bill in Co
writes:
Paul in Houston TX wrote:
HI,
Its been a while since I ran win 98 and I want
to install on a small partition.
What is _typical_ hdd space needed for the o/s?


From my old dusty memory, I think about 2 GB. But I'd sure go higher than
that, especially if you plan on installing ANY programs. So maybe 10 GB,
or better yet, 20 GB. (As for installing programs on another partition,
that seems to be of little value - in fact, it's a bit disadvantageous).


FWIW, I've been running XP (and adding software) here, and it's only got
to 11G after over a year. (Mind you, that's just the OS, the software,
and the data from the few prog.s that insist on keeping their data with
them; the partition I keep my data on is much fuller.)

My old '98 machine is a long way off filling 10G, after many years, even
including the data (I don't store much video on it though).

Can win 98 run on fat 16?
Can win 98 se run on fat 16?


Probably, but why would you want to limit yourself that way? That's a
pretty severe limitation.


(I was wondering that, too.)
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Old October 26th 10, 09:17 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
Bill in Co
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Default win 98 size and fat question

J. P. Gilliver (John) wrote:
In message , Bill in Co
writes:
Paul in Houston TX wrote:
HI,
Its been a while since I ran win 98 and I want
to install on a small partition.
What is _typical_ hdd space needed for the o/s?


From my old dusty memory, I think about 2 GB. But I'd sure go higher
than
that, especially if you plan on installing ANY programs. So maybe 10
GB,
or better yet, 20 GB. (As for installing programs on another partition,
that seems to be of little value - in fact, it's a bit disadvantageous).


FWIW, I've been running XP (and adding software) here, and it's only got
to 11G after over a year. (Mind you, that's just the OS, the software,
and the data from the few prog.s that insist on keeping their data with
them; the partition I keep my data on is much fuller.)


I've been running XP on a 40 GB partition which is about half full now
(about 20 GB), and that includes the software and some data. (My audio and
video files are on two other partitions, since they are so large).

My old '98 machine is a long way off filling 10G, after many years, even
including the data (I don't store much video on it though).


My old Win98SE machine (which I just upgraded to 1 GHz, the max speed P3 CPU
for this oldie) has a 20 GB C: partition, which has about 12 GB used now.

It's funny, but when I click on Properties, it shows the following info:
Used space: 12,578,045,952 bytes (followed by 11.7 GB). Go figure! I
don't know how it rounds that figure off to 11. 7GB.
And the C: drive partition capacity is shown as:
Capacity: 19,994,050,560 bytes (followed by 18.6 GB) (Again, I don't get
it).

Can win 98 run on fat 16?
Can win 98 se run on fat 16?


Probably, but why would you want to limit yourself that way? That's a
pretty severe limitation.


(I was wondering that, too.)


Well, if it's of any help, he was also talking about Win95, so it looks like
he wants to stick with the old basic file system. Maybe he's got some old
utilities that only work on FAT16. Otherwise I can't see any reason to use
FAT16.


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Old October 26th 10, 11:30 AM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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"Paul in Houston TX" wrote in message
...
HI,
Its been a while since I ran win 98 and I want
to install on a small partition.
What is _typical_ hdd space needed for the o/s?
Can win 98 run on fat 16?
Can win 98 se run on fat 16?


I ran 98se upgrade on a 1.2 Gig harddrive and 32 Mb RAM using FAT16.

Plenty of space for the OS.

The only reason I didn't opt for FAT32 was because the converter refused to
convert to FAT32 due to some bad sectors on the disk.


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Old October 26th 10, 12:18 PM posted to microsoft.public.win98.gen_discussion
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Paul in Houston TX wrote:
HI,
Its been a while since I ran win 98 and I want
to install on a small partition.
What is _typical_ hdd space needed for the o/s?


Mine occupies 968 MB of a slightly less than 8 GB partition.

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