re: How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? Friday, August 1, 2008 at 9:10 am Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3588 messages posted) |Is there some way so that |when you put Windows 98 into another computer with a different motherboard, |you can make it not ask the user for drivers to the sound card, video card, etc. |and just boot unattended? | maybeway36 If you don't want to PURCHASE a (Micro$oft) OS for that 2nd box and you don't want to jump thru the hoops of INSTALLING a M$ OS, an obvious solution is a FREE[1] bootable Linux CD: cache of http://www.frozentech.com/content/livecd.php ++Knoppix++Ubuntu+Damn.Small.Linux... Linux is legendary for its willingness to work with more hardware devices than any other OS (*especially* OLD hardware). http://www.kroah.com/log/images/ols_2006_keynote_24.jpg http://www.kroah.com/log/images/ols_2006_keynote_04.jpg http://www.kroah.com/log/linux/ols_2006_keynote.html ...and since those are "Live" CDs, there's NO NEED TO INSTALL that OS on the HDD --though you can go ahead and install Linux (from the same CD). [1] Linux is completely gratis if you download the ISO image and burn your own CD; if you order a pre-burned CD from a vendor, it's less that the price of a burger AND, because it's also libre, you can put that copy on 100,000 computers if you want--no additional cost. Written in response to: How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? (maybeway36: Thursday, July 31, 2008 at 12:19 pm) Responses to this message: re: How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? (maybeway36: Friday, August 1, 2008 at 4:03 pm) All messages in this thread [show all] How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? (maybeway36: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 12:19 pm) re: How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? (Keith Stanier: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 1:33 pm) re: How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? (Jacob6601: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 8:13 pm) re: How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? (bob wells: Thu, Jul 31, 2008, 11:40 pm) re: How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? (gewg_: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 9:10 am) re: How to avoid installing drivers on bootup? (maybeway36: Fri, Aug 1, 2008, 4:03 pm) Reply or follow-up to this message Search this forum Start a new thread on a different subject Report abuse of the forum Return to the Windows 98 Discussion Forum