90 Minutes to Install Windows 98?

[Rockett15]

I dont see why it wouldnt? Grab a 98 bootdisk iso and have at 'er.

[tsupersonic]

Windows 98SE - installed in about 40 minutes on virtualbox...

ah brings back old memories. I wish I had a copy of Windows 95 or 3.1

[Athlonite]

That's normal it takes on average 1.5 to 2 hours to install Windows 98.

Back in the day it used to drive me nuts, since I had to reinstall 3-5 times a week sometimes. Then XP came and what huge improvement it was, it only took 1 hour at most to install. Now Vista takes only 30 minutes to install on my system.

And still there are people who think Vista is terrible!

damn what were you installing it on a 286 with 8MB ram and 545MB Hdd

i never had win98 take more than 45mins to install

[wst50]

Not to get too off topic...but I can beat that. My first one was a 286 that ran at a blazing speed of 9.75 mhz. It had a huge 8 mb of ram and a whopping harddrive that had 100 mb of space. It came with msdos 4 and ran windows 3.11. God I loved dos shell and having to manually edit the autoexec.bat to allow windows to boot instead of dos.

Mine was an Amiga 600. Game, set, match. 750k 3 1/2 floppy discs. It was sold before I was born. (Also got a Spektrum 128k)

Damn, that puts the vice on my idea of installing 98 SE on my AA1... heh.

[Pompeius]

I had this issue using Sun Virtual Box. It took forever to install and had terrible performance once installed. On Virtual PC 2007 it installed in about 20 minutes but crashed at every available opportunity. Weird.

[Blue-Vision]

Commodore VIC-20, with Super Expander (added 16 colors and 8k RAM). Tape Drive. VICModem (300 Baud).

25 khz speed. :bounce:

[brlmedia]

running win98 in virtualpc 2007 right now, installed in 35 minutes, its nice to just see the old days, and i can test websites with ie6, fun times

[Black Leopard]

VMWare player have VM tools for win9x/NT.