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Windows 98 SDI?| hooovahh |
Posted: Jun 23 2006, 03:49 PM
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 Member  Group: Developer Posts: 20 Member No.: 4 Joined: 9-May 06  |
So I had an idea (stupid brain) what if you installed windows 98 on your machine like normal, then ran hd2sdi.exe found in some tool kit. Then have your windows 98 on a sdi image. Then booted it with isolinux? I remember hearing isolinux could boot sdi.
Would that idea work at all? I'm sure wendy is monitoring this and I figure she's the expert on win 9x stuff. So does any one think this might work? I doubt I'll have time to test it out since I already have 4 or so projects going at the same time (on top of work school wife etc) But I might dig up my old windows 98 disk and give it a try. -------------------- "Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."
"Woah, slow down there maestro. There's a *New* Mexico?" |
  
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| Nuno Brito |
Posted: Jun 23 2006, 04:26 PM
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 Frequent  Group: .script developer Posts: 342 Member No.: 1 Joined: 8-May 06 |
I'd surely help writing some scripts to make things more automated, but I really don't know if it is possible at all..
 Nice idea..  -------------------- Nuno Brito's page - A simple one man page - nothing else - nothing less simple..
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| Bopha |
Posted: Jun 24 2006, 05:50 AM
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Member Group: Advanced member Posts: 34 Member No.: 43 Joined: 12-June 06 |
I think the chances are slim. Once 98 takes control of hard drive it might realize the ruse and barf.
I think one of the first Win 98 from RAM things I heard about is from: http://www.geocities.com/politalk/rmdrv/ram98.htm Also, Nuno found out about something called GRUB4DOS at http://grub4dos.sourceforge.net/ that could probably fool 98 into thinking a RAM drive is the boot drive.. |
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| jaclaz |
Posted: Jun 24 2006, 11:13 AM
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Searcher Group: Moderator Posts: 65 Member No.: 9 Joined: 9-May 06 |
Why SDI?
 There are quite a lot of projects to load and run Windows 98 from RAM disk, check these: http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...26&hl=qualystem http://www.911cd.net/forums//index.php?sho...60&hl=qualystem With the minimal requirements of Windows 98 and the huge amount of ram present on modern systems I can see no problem. Besides nothing prevents you from setting up Win98 on a "conventional" RAW HD image, using tools like these: http://www.geocities.com/jadoxa/shsufdrv/index.html RAW images are handed beautifully under NT based systems by programs such as Winimage or Ken Kato's VDK: http://home.graffiti.net/jaclaz:graffiti.n...ts/VDM/vdm.html jaclaz |
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| hooovahh |
Posted: Jun 26 2006, 10:55 AM
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Member Group: Developer Posts: 20 Member No.: 4 Joined: 9-May 06 |
I don't know it was just an idea, I've been using SDI lately and getting use to how it works and thought it would be a cool idea since getting 98 to run live from a cd rom/ram is still difficult and experimental.
-------------------- "Family. Religion. Friendship. These are the three demons you must slay if you wish to succeed in business."
"Woah, slow down there maestro. There's a *New* Mexico?" |
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