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SpAwN:
I did a 98lite install on my computer, it runs and boots really fast. I'm using advmame and everything works great.

BUT its been a pain trying to get Daphne to run. I'm going to format and install regular win98se and see if I can get Daphne to run correctly.

rampy:
That ernie ball story was pretty good (I read it too Analog-x)

I used to like ernie ball skinny top fat bottoms back in they day when played guitar in bad grunge bands (for lack of a better description)

But I digress... although technically HC is right (booo hisss) I've used 98lite in my cabinet (and other applications) and loved it and didn't have any problems (who needs the latest directX anyways)

I liked the control 98lite gave me over my install.  I don't need a webbrowser on my arcade machine (nor the overhead of integrated IE)... and thre's a bunch of other crap... I liked the snappy feel of Windows 98SE with a 95 desktop and no IE on older hardware so that i could maximize performance out of what I got...  I actually left that particular machine in DOS mode for just that reason...

When I upgraded however, to an AMD XP1700 I chose XP as my OS, partially because some of the stuff I wanted to use either performed better in XP (daphne) or was XP only....  I then proceeded to tweak the hell out of the services thanks to the black vipers guide (seeing a pattern here?)

*shrug*  Just like anything else stuff has it's application and "sweet spot"... that reminds me... I should put 98lite micro  on my craptop =P

Rampy

cobelli:
It was a while back, so I am struggling to remember, but I think this is how I made a bootable 98.

First off, and most importantly, the boot sequence. The cd has to be bootable or nothing will work. In nero, anyway, it asks for a floppy or floppy image to create the boot image from. Here's what I included on that floppy.
Basic dos stuff (can be created by going to format a drive and selecting like creat system disk)
Xcopy
xmsdsk
oakcdrom.sys

Then, here is the autoexec.bat that makes all the magic happen:
MSCDEX.EXE  /D:CD001 /L:D
rem a:\xmsdsk 64000 c: /y
copy a:\command.com c:
rem a:\xcopy d:\win\*.* c:\ /s /e
path=c:\;c:\windows\command;c:\windows;c:\windows\system
c:\windows\
win.com


Squashed down 98 as small as it would go, then booted in dos and duplicated all of windows into a folder. That folder then gets burned onto the cd as win.

I know that was rushed, but I was in a hurry. If you need more help, let me know. I'd be glad to upload the bootdisk to you.

- Cobelli


--- Quote from: Analog-X on August 28, 2003, 10:15:14 am ---
Hi Cobelli

I bought 98Lite Last year and have used it in many situations where I need a fast 98 System that was not bloated with all other MS stuff.
 
Anyways, many times before I attempted to run Win98Lite from a CD-ROM and using Ram-Disk without any success.  Would you have any documentation on how this is done?
 

(Start of RANT!!)
Now as far as Microsoft Dropping OS/S.
 
I have a link about Microsoft Going after a Small Company whos licencing info was off on about 8% of their computers and all the hell they went through which convinced the owner of the company to go completly non-microsoft and so they switched to Linux.
 
Which brings me back to what you said about MS Supporting 3 OS's at a time.  The Article touches on that topic, as one of the annoyances.  The Owner of the companys says he's saving money every year by not having to upgrade OS's and losing support on previous os.
 
For home user when an OS support drops its not that big of a deal you either stick with the old one or upgrade.
 
A large company has the added bonus of hundreds of computers that would need to be upgraded which is a lot of work and cant realy stick with an obsolete OS since business demands upgrades be made...sometimes the customers you deal with upgrade their os/software so you have no choice but to follow.
(END OF RANT)
 


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Chris:
You only really need the latest DirectX if you are doing non-MAME stuff.  If you have a pure MAME cabinet with no USB devices, you might as well run DOS rather than any Lite version of Windows.  (Howard, your objection is pre-noted. :)  )

--Chris
Analog-X:
No thats good enough information I will give it a shot.

 But just a thought what about the MBR (Master Boot Record) doesnt windows use it for certain things like the swap file?

And what if I were to boot this special CD-ROM on a Windows 2000 Machine it wouldnt harm the boot sector in anyway?



--- Quote from: cobelli on August 28, 2003, 11:40:11 am ---
I know that was rushed, but I was in a hurry. If you need more help, let me know. I'd be glad to upload the bootdisk to you.

- Cobelli


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