HD Install :: DSL back to Windows

I want to go back to windows 98. My laptop is old, low-ram, dadada...

I want to reformat the HD. How do I without a floppy? My floppy broke and no longer works. Is there a way I can format using a CD or anything?

yes, you can use the DSL live cd or grab a copy of gparted live cd-> http://gparted.sourceforge.net/livecd.php

i recommend grabbing the gparted cd, it comes in very handy when you need to mess with partions or just wipe drives.

How do you format with the DSL LiveCD? Or do you just partition it?

My laptop has a 4gb HD... and as I said before I want to put win98 on it. So I partition/format it as... FAT32 right?

Oh... lastly... how do I restore windows bootloader without a floppy?

Windows setup will overwrite the bootloader without asking you.
It can format the partition as well. It uses fat32/vfat
In DSL you can use cfdisk or fdisk to partition if you wish to.
The win98 bootdisk also contains the MS-DOS version of fdisk.

Quote (compaq1247 @ July 16 2006,23:30)

You want to go back to win98 on a low resource machine?

On my Compaq armada 266Mhz 96M ram win98 makes my fan run almost all the time while with DSL it only runs when I am pushing the cpu with graphics intense games or multiple graphics things running (firefox and tkwget and several terminals runing finds and downloading something all at the same time) but usually only when I am playing a game.

I can't even get windows drivers for some pcmcia network cards (that DSL recognizes right away).

What are your system specs? If you use jwm it uses less resources and remove all icons that you don't use regularly helps. Install to HD with a regular install, make a swap partition and install windows to a partition (you would need three partitions but the swap you only need about 128 to 256 and DSL give the rest of 1Gig that leaves 3 gig for windows and you can always use the windows partition from DSL if you need to). This way you could see what the difference is and use each one for a specific purpose if you would like (can always get rid of DSL later again and make another fat partition or make one big one again).

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