Rufus screenshot Add a copy of the Win98 folder from the 98 install disc, for the sake of booting and installing from it. Please note that Rufus installs a Windows Millenium DOS, so you better get an image of the Millenium boot floppy (for example from ) and grab Fdisk off it onto the USB.
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Set up the SSD Get yourself a bootable flash with a partitioning tool. I recommend using.
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Once you’ve booted into it, go on and remove all of the stuff for the sake of creating a single 4GB partition on the SSD, and don’t forget to backup prior to that! Once you’re done with it, move on! Make a first install Enter BIOS and make sure the SSD is the first drive on the system. Then boot off the flash from Step 1. You’ll end up at the DOS prompt: C: Now enter DIR and make sure you see the files you had on your installation USB.
Then enter cd Win98 (I blindly assume you didn’t rename anything you got from the CD, right?) and then setupcor /c /it /p a;b. This should start the setup process. If you use setup.exe, it will just stare at you with its deep black screen. If it doesn’t start, well, there’s a solution for that too.
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Find a relatively-new PC (that supports USB storage on BIOS level), plug in a hard drive that you will install into, and your installation media, off which you will boot. After the installation to the USB drive is done (oh, make sure its size won’t exceed your EEE’s SSD length of 4000MB! I made mine 3200.), boot to some Linux LiveCD on your EEE and use DD to copy the HDD right onto the SSD. For example if the HDD with 98 is /dev/sdc and the EEE’s SSD is /dev/sdb you will have to execute this in the Linux shell: sudo umount /dev/sdb; sudo umount /dev/sdc; sudo dd if=/dev/sdc of=/dev/sdb bs=1M. Win98 installer freaking out on my Core i3 (yes I had to go the failed-to-start way) The system will ask you some questions, and then proceed with the installation. If it decides to reboot on its own, point it to the installer media, not the SSD or the target disk!
It doesn’t write any bootsector until it’s done doing stuff! By the way install it to D: WINDOWS, because the C: drive is gonna be the installer flashdrive. You may try installing DOS and copying the Win98 folder onto the SSD, and starting the installation from there, but it didn’t work out for me. Right when it’s gonna detect devices it will ask you about every detection attempt. Always say “yes” so in case it hangs, you know where to substitute it for a “no” if it decides to hang on you. Drive the drivers Alright, you got the thing running. No sound, no network, and not even any decent resolution or color depth.
And if you used the install-from-flash-onto-external-USB-disk method, no bootloader either (that’s why I recommend to use an SD as an installation media, I did it that way, and the SD is always here as the bootloader, and for the sake of keeping the installer handy). You’re so mad you even reboot your desktop Windows 7 computer by hitting the Reset button, but you did it. And all you got is this. Well maybe you installed Word and wrote a couple of docs, but still not satisfied. Well it means it’s time to get some drivers! The only ones I was able to find by now are video and USB ones.
Sadly it seems that there are no Realtek HDAudio drivers, as well as no wireless ones, and even though it might be possible to get the Ethernet port to work using the Ndis drivers, it didn’t work out for me (if you know how to solve Ndis.vxd error code 2 – tell me in the comments), I had to make a special directory into which I had to expand all of the Driver.cab files in order for Windows to at least let me install that. Maybe that’s just me, I’m not sure at all. For the video drivers, you are gonna need the. However, even though the graphics will be fast and smooth, get ready for some problems:. Even though it works awesome when using Windows applications, in case you launch a DOS box with a program, fullscreen or whatever – it’s gonna screw stuff up with interesting textmode graphical effects.
Sometimes hitting Alt+Enter to go fullscreen and again Alt+Enter to go back helps. The funky graphic effects after starting command.com from Windows. Either you have the resolution or you have the colors – the driver cannot fit the whole image into the memory if you set 16bit at 800×600, except if you patch the BIOS, a way of what is something they forgot to tell us about, so you either have 640x480x32 (which is, to be honest, pretty usable, even x16 is fine for me), or 800x600x8, just 16 colors. You may try to launch the TSR fix they claimed would fix this, but for me it just made a nice fade-from-black-to-white screensaver, that’s all.
That is because you need to add them into Autoexec.bat at the very beginning, and you better do to give it a fancy resolution, in my case the line was: lh c: vbe9x 0800×480 Alv1411.exe Actually, I only got the 800×400 version to work, but in 16bit High Color, so it’s cool with me. However this doesn’t fix the ‘funky textmode’ problem at all. As for the USB support, the first thing to do is set the OS installation mode in BIOS to ‘Start’. Then install carefully, paying attention to the instructions, and you’ll be good to go.
And now it’s time for some screenies!
Share this story A little over a week ago, reviews of Asus's Eee PC 701 started to trickle out onto the Internet. Some of the larger publications, like and got their hands on the unit first, but as it has become more widely available sites like and have now put out their own reviews of the Eee PC. The overall verdict is fairly unanimous: the device's keyboard is a bit cramped, but in terms of price, performance, and features the Eee PC hits the trifecta. Indeed, Asus appears to have gotten so many things right with the Eee PC that it could be a game-changer in the mobile market, in terms of both hardware and software. Instead of rehashing the reviews, which you can read on your own, let me draw a few lessons from the Eee PC launch that I think are important for the mobile space going into 2008. Intel wins, and Microsoft loses Thanks to its combination of Intel hardware and a non-bloated Linux install, reviewers found that Asus's little laptop performs just as well as much larger and more expensive Windows notebooks.
And the company spent enough time tweaking the unit's default Linux distro that Windows users will supposedly feel right at home. The device does support Windows XP, but Linux seems to be the OS of choice for all of the reviewers for performance and ease-of-use reasons. In this respect, Microsoft has well and truly blown it, because this device is poised to introduce a few million Best Buy shoppers to a pleasantly usable, non-embedded Linux distro. Even more ominous from Redmond's perspective is the fact that the Eee PC is just one of a breaking wave of Linux-powered portable devices that will reach consumers in the coming year, and that it's the hardware makers that are driving the Linux push. The absence of Microsoft at the recent, was widely commented upon. Intel showed off a raft of ultramobile PC (UMPC), mobile internet device (MID), and smartphone prototypes and mock-ups, all of which were Linux-powered.
Across the company, from the to the to the to the, every single forward-looking effort at Intel is very much a software effort, and all of those software efforts are Linux- and open source-based. This is also true of ARM, which is looking to the open source community to provide the free razors that make its blades worth buying. In fact, my most recent briefing on ARM's mobile plans (an article on this is coming soon) was a mirror image of IDF—the form factors and Linux-powered software efforts were largely the same; only the processor hardware was different.
In sum, Linux is now the popular quarterback at the new mobile party, and Microsoft is just that kid who used to be cool back in grade school when tetherball was the hot game and he was king of the pole. If Microsoft wants to break back into the popular crowd, it's going to have to put on something a bit fresher than Windows Mobile 6, which feels like the operating system equivalent of feathered hair and tight-rolled jeans.
Significant shrinkage. The Eee PC's main selling point is its form factor, and it's the form factor that has really blown the reviewers' minds. It seems that the Eee PC is small enough and light enough to attain a truly new level of portability and convenience, while still having just enough screen real estate and keyboard space to be comfortably usable. The result is that reviewers have compared this device's form factor to the UMPC and found the latter wanting. The balance between size and usability that the Eee PC has struck could well be one that marks a sort of threshold in form factor design. It's likely that the keyboard + WIMP (windows, icons, menus, pointer) paradigm may not be able to shrink any further than the Eee PC's form factor, due to the limits of human dexterity and visual acuity. Anything smaller than the Eee PC will have to be built on a fundamentally different interface paradigm, and no, stylus + WIMP is probably not it.
If this turns out to be the case, then there will be a permanent gap in the market between the Eee PC and the Nokia N810. Here's to the crazy ones. Here's to Asus. If nothing else, the Eee PC could demonstrate that there's a whole device category out that's waiting to be tapped: a wireless laptop that's about the dimensions and weight of a trade paperback or journal (i.e., a large Moleskine), with only solid state storage (no optical drive). If Asus finds the kind of success with the Eee PC that the reviews would seem to indicate, then we'll see the market spit out many more of these diskless devices in the coming year.
I've actually been dying for Apple to release just such a device for about two years now, but the last time I brought it up here at Ars I got flamed by hordes of optical drive lovers(!?). (I can't find a link for this incident, so you'll have to take my word for it.) Maybe now is the time, though, for Cupertino to follow Asus's lead and put some of that into something besides and iPod or an iPhone. But regardless of who's next—Apple, Lenovo, Nokia, or whoever—the Eee PC's combination of form factor, performance, and mobile Linux is a prelude of things to come. When Silverthorne and WiMAX debut in 2008, we'll see this category of device take on a whole new level of power and connectivity.