- #Windows 98 usb bootable install
- #Windows 98 usb bootable mod
- #Windows 98 usb bootable drivers
- #Windows 98 usb bootable driver
#Windows 98 usb bootable driver
There is a HIMEMX.exe provided in the driver package, that can limit Windows 98 to “see” only 1GB ram, even if you have physically installed more.
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a USB mouse) to the onboard USB, the OS will ask for a driver, point it to the USB driver I provided.
#Windows 98 usb bootable drivers
Then copy the chipset drivers into C:\WINDOWS\INF\, replacing the original files. At this point, press F12 to boot into your DOS startup disk again.
#Windows 98 usb bootable install
Enable all the hardware in the bios so they are visible in the install process.
#Windows 98 usb bootable mod
Windows 98 won’t boot with more than 1GB RAM, we will mod the OS later to fix this.
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There are some driver issues that I can’t resolve. It turns out X41 was too “new” for Windows 98. Because Thinkpad X41 is my oldest machine with a parallel port (on the dock), I tried to install Windows 98 SE on it. Virtual machine does not emulate the parallel port well. Recently I wanted to play with one of my old PDAs, and its sync software requires a parallel port and Windows 98 environment.