[Geek] Status
Mar. 2nd, 2004 08:57 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
elfsWell, so far, so good. After getting Win98SE (why? Because it's what I legally own, that's why) onto its new hard drive, everything seemed to be hunky-dory. I had to boot back into Linux to download drivers for the video card and push them into the windows partition, and that seemed to work. But then the LAN driver and the audio card gave fits as I tried to install them. I got a ton of "file not found" errors whenever Windows wanted to look on the Win98SE CD-ROM.
It turns out that whatever driver was doing filesystem management couldn't read the CAB files as part of the filespec. What a pain. I eventually booted back into Linux, built cabextract, and decompressed the entire Win98SE CD into a temporary directory on the Windows partition. There! It better be able to find those files now.
ToDos:
Get sound working on Windows 98. Power Down the Linux Drives, then install Service Pack 1. Install entertainment package. Install MS Office and Quicken.
Build new kernel for Linux. Get CD-ROM burning working. Get cryptography working. Install NVidia linux driver. Run limited upgrade packages from FedoraCore2. Consider 2.6 kernel. Upgrade the following: gthumb, audacity, xscreensaver.
It turns out that whatever driver was doing filesystem management couldn't read the CAB files as part of the filespec. What a pain. I eventually booted back into Linux, built cabextract, and decompressed the entire Win98SE CD into a temporary directory on the Windows partition. There! It better be able to find those files now.
ToDos:
Get sound working on Windows 98. Power Down the Linux Drives, then install Service Pack 1. Install entertainment package. Install MS Office and Quicken.
Build new kernel for Linux. Get CD-ROM burning working. Get cryptography working. Install NVidia linux driver. Run limited upgrade packages from FedoraCore2. Consider 2.6 kernel. Upgrade the following: gthumb, audacity, xscreensaver.
