Vern:
The size of your COMMAND file is the same as I have in my Win98SE root, but
there should be a number of other files in C:\ that Windows needs to run, so
it doesn't sound to me that Win98 is installed. The 340 mb of free space is
scary -- that's smaller than my C:\Windows folder. According to the MS
Win98SE box, the minimums for Win98 are 486DX66 or better, 24 mb RAM, and at
least 205 mb on the hard drive. Further down, there's a note that says,
"System requirements for Windows 98-based programs may exceed system
requirements described above for Windows 98." Based on my past experience
with trying to run Win3.1 on a minimal system, that is a gross
misunderstatement.
I don't know what you're trying to do, but I don't think that either Win98
or Win95 are going to be good choices without at least 32/64 mb RAM and a
larger hard drive. Even then, you're going to learn the virtues of patience.
Good luck,
Carroll Grigsby

----- Original Message -----
From: "Vernon Plumlee" <[log in to unmask]>
To: <[log in to unmask]>
Sent: Monday, November 20, 2000 5:54 PM
Subject: [PCBUILD] Resurrecting a Zeos Pantera 486


> I was given a Zeos Pantera 486 having a tape drive, a 50x CD Rom, and a
standard floppy with the following system specs: (Taken from the initial
boot-up screen) Evergreen 100 mhz upgrade, 640 k system ram, 24 megs
extended ram, w/Phoenix Bios version 4.04. It shows system bios shadowed and
video bios shadowed. Also, says it contains Intel Plug and Play Bios
Extensions - Release 1.21. Below that it reads Microsoft (R) Windows 98 with
the copyright date.  Story is it was reformatted running Win 3.1, and a
Windows 98 boot disk off another computer was tried that didn't seem to work
right.
>
> Referencing the C prompt with "dir" brings up:
> Volume in drive C has no label
> Volume serial number is 2B39-1B05
> Directory of C:\
>
> COMMAND COM    93,890  date time
> CD ROM     <DIR>        date time
>      1 file(s)  93,890  bytes
>      1 dir(s)   340 mb  free
>
> I have win 98 SE bootdisk from NoSpin but am concerned about interfering
with the indicated win 98 referenced as above. What's the proper procedure
to get this up and running?
>
> Sorry for the long post but thought all info would be useful.
> TIA..Vern

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