[OFB Cafe] another win98 question

[dep]

said Rick:

| Again, taking into consideration that my brain cells have aged, I think
| the full CD also updates Windows 98 to Windows 98SE.
|
| You should be able to boot into Win98 and put the Win98 CD. It will
| either autorun and ask if you want to install Win98SE or you can browse
| to the CD and click "setup.exe". It *may* be in the D:\i386 directory.

many thanks. i've been doing notebook hard drive musical chairs this 
afternoon -- there was brief danger of my doing something useful, but it 
passed -- and have discovered among other things that kubuntu 7.10 will 
not boot on a 64mb p-166.

in the course of it, i also realized that i have a little thinkpad 240 that  
has a celeron 400 and, i dunno, 192 megs of memory or some such and that 
will run, albeit very slowly, kubuntu 7.10.

if i can get the little linksys wireless pcmcia card to work on it, then i 
can put the libretto back in the closet until it falls victim to another 
bright idea.

of course, getting the wireless to work is a substantial "if."

funny how time passes. i got the 240 about five years ago, and it was an 
ibm refurb even then. have taken good care of it, remember how excited i 
was when it arrived, and in some part of my mind it's the "new" notebook, 
even though i have a tp t42 with a fast chip and a gig and a half of ram.

anyway, would like to put this one to good use.

(heavens -- upstairs i have a tp500 from 1993, b/w screen and a 386sx-25 
chip . . . and it still works. ran OS/2 on it for years.)

so. now to try to make the linksys card work. oh, boy.
-- 
dep

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