re: having trouble [installing] 3com net card Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 4:02 pm Windows 98 Annoyances Discussion Forum Posted by gewg_ (3932 messages posted) Kiwi wrote: |It looks like an "INF" database of driver information[...] |it doesn't seem to eliminate a variety of conflicts |rising out of using pre-PnP hardware for every old chipset. I'd like to know how my usual boast would stand up on those WRT Linux having the best hardware support of *ANY* OS. I was mentioning just the other day about how Linux Mint's built-in support goes back to i386 hardware (and the Mint Fluxbox edition works with RAM levels similar to what Win98 will). Hardware that is that old, however, is unlikely to be able to boot to a CD drive and certainly not to a USB thumbdrive. A bootable Linux floppy (1.44MB) will give you pretty much what a M$ floppy will (no graphical desktop). 8-( I'm pretty sure you don't want to *install* a non-M$ OS to demonstrate the point. ...though if you can't get that setup working with the M$ stuff, it's an option... Written in response to: re: having trouble [installing] 3com net card (Kiwi: Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 2:51 pm) There are presently no replies to this message. All messages in this thread [show all] having trouble instaling 3com net card (scott: Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 10:41 am) re: having trouble [installing] 3com net card (gewg_: Mon, Sep 28, 2009, 12:17 pm) re: having trouble [installing] 3com net card (Kiwi: Wed, Sep 30, 2009, 9:08 pm) re: having trouble [installing] 3com net card (gewg_: Thu, Oct 1, 2009, 12:46 pm) re: having trouble [installing] 3com net card (Kiwi: Thu, Oct 1, 2009, 2:51 pm) re: having trouble [installing] 3com net card (gewg_: Thu, Oct 1, 2009, 4:02 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