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javeryh:

I've got an old computer with Windows 98 running on it.  It's a Gateway PIII, 766GHz, 256MB of RAM.  It's a mess of files (mp3s, various programs, etc.) and I want to start fresh and turn it into a dedicated MAME box using MaLa as the front end.  I'll only be running vertical games so I don't think I really need a high end computer. 

Is this possible?  I heard about something called TinyXP - should I try to get that running?  Any help or advice you can give would be great.  I can build a pretty good cab - I just don't have any idea how to get it working!

Thanks!   :cheers:

Thenasty:

Boot XP from CD, delete partition, create partition/format with NTFS and BINGO.....

BobA:

After your do create partition and format with the XP disk then boot the Tiny XP disk and do the install of Tiny XP.  Tiny XP expects a clean HD to do its install and cannot be used to do the partitioning and formating.



turbo6:


--- Quote from: BobA on June 23, 2007, 08:27:36 am ---After your do create partition and format with the XP disk then boot the Tiny XP disk and do the install of Tiny XP.  Tiny XP expects a clean HD to do its install and cannot be used to do the partitioning and formating.

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I guess it depends on which version of Tiny XP you are using... I used Tiny XP Beast Edition and it did the partioning and formatting with no problems. Just a heads up for those using Tiny XP....

Dmod:

With TinyXP Beast, I think you still need to have an empty partition first.  On my PIII, I experimented with TinyXP and DrewKaree's Nlite setup.  I didn't want to destroy my data, so I used PartitionMagic to create some new partitions and then did the install using the TinyXP disk.

One problem I did run into was that my old Dell PIII has an ATA Ultra PCI card that the drives connect to instead of the motheboard IDE connector.  You need to have the driver for this card at install time in order to install XP correctly.  Otherwise, at least in my case, the install wouldn't complete.  The normal WindowsXP disk will contain the necessary drivers, but the TinyXP and NLite installers don't.  In order to do the install, you'll need to have any required drivers on floppies.

Once I figured out it was the Ultra card that was giving me problems (and it took me a long time to figure that out), the installation went smoothly.

In the end, I opted not to use a TinyXP installation and just kept my old one.  The TinyXP install did boot faster and take up less disk space, but it wasn't running games any faster than my normal XP install.  Instead, I just used Windows to disable a bunch of the services that I didn't need, and uninstalled a bunch of junk that was launchng at startup


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