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tsudrummer24
08-29-2008, 08:26 AM
Because I have an ext3-formatted partition on my hard drive, windows 98 installation initiates Scandisk. This would be fine, only that my hard drive is from a modern computer and 92GB. As you can imagine, this would take a day or more with Scandisk's speed.

Is there any way to disable this?
Constance
08-29-2008, 11:03 AM
Perhaps using a boot manager so that the ext3 partition is hidden to Windows 98 ... however it seems strange to me that Windows 98 would run scandisk on a partition it can't even manage ... are you sure the issue is really related ?
tsudrummer24
08-29-2008, 02:54 PM
Do you know of any boot managers that can do this? All I'm familiar with is GRUB.

I'm not sure if it's related, but in qemu, it doesnt use scandisk.
Constance
08-30-2008, 06:38 AM
You can give a try to XOSL, I installed it at my work and it works just fine.
I'd recommend installing it on a dedicated FreeDOS partition (you won't need more than a few megs)
tsudrummer24
08-30-2008, 05:11 PM
I attempted to install FreeDOS, and it installed onto the FAT32 partion quite well, but when I booted to it, it gave an error message that said

bad or missing command interpreter.
enter the full shell command line.

And thus, I could not install XOSL.

Any other ideas?
Constance
08-31-2008, 03:35 PM
Well, was command.com present on your partition ?
tsudrummer24
09-01-2008, 07:48 AM
sadly, i'm not sure. I gave up too early, and just switched to virtualbox.

MUCH better than qemu...I would definitely recommend it to you- it's cross-platform and open-source.

It seems like we're the only ones using this forum, doesn't it?
Constance
09-01-2008, 08:32 PM
Yep, looks like there aren't many people around lately ^^'
However I don't really see the point between those virtualisation solutions and boot managers (?)
tsudrummer24
09-03-2008, 06:51 PM
I don't understand your (question).

You mean you don't understand my desire for windows 98? Or you don't see vm programs a viable solutions, or vice versa?
Constance
09-04-2008, 12:18 PM
I just thought you believed you could actually make a real dual boot using a virtual machine ^^'
HandySolo
09-08-2008, 12:20 AM
If you want to install windows 9x and skip a few things, I recommend command line switch's.

When installing windows from dos type setup /IS /ID /IE

Where /IS disables the scan disc checks. /ID Do not check for the minimum disk space required to install Windows 98.

Lastly /IE Skip the Startup Disk screen.

I hope this helps and clears this up.