Windows9x minimal installation

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Sep 26th, 2000, 01:17 PM
Mad Compie

Hi chat chitters,

Anybody knows how to install (or if there exists) a really minimized Windows 95 or 98?
I'm trying to fitting it into a Compact Flash on an embedded PC.
Sep 26th, 2000, 01:42 PM
parksie

Have you tried WinCE?
Sep 26th, 2000, 02:23 PM
oetje

Windows CE is for handheld computers, you can't install it on a pc. (Say it if I'm wrong)
Sep 26th, 2000, 02:27 PM
parksie

He said he was using an embedded PC, so it's much more likely to be using a WinCE compatible processor.
Sep 26th, 2000, 03:58 PM
kb244

Erm yer wrong, hehe

I was running WinCE on a ThinClient running off a 200Mhtz Intel processor ( ThinClients are like terminals PCs that have their own processing ability, but solely rely on the Server for anything exensive such as software, files, etc, but the OS is WinCE, capable of 1280x1024x32bit output)
Sep 26th, 2000, 04:16 PM
parksie

I sit corrected...

But that reinforces my point...you can still run WinCE on lots of things, and it's smaller than Win9x.

Mad Compie - what is your embedded PC embedded into? And what spec?
Sep 27th, 2000, 08:33 AM
kb244

But I would think tho that when they do write WinCE they write a customized version for the CPU it's going to be placed on, only problem is , I am not quite sure if WinCE the OS is capable of handleing all the stuff that can be thrown into a PC (which is why when I Seen it on a ThinClient, it made sense, because all the hardware ports, etc are Built into the system and the WinCE was customized to work with it.)
Sep 27th, 2000, 08:35 AM
kb244

Also I wasnt correcting you parskie

Quote:

Originally posted by oetje
Windows CE is for handheld computers, you can't install it on a pc. (Say it if I'm wrong)

I was correcting him.
Sep 27th, 2000, 12:41 PM
parksie

Oh...right...

(I always get confused :eek:)
Sep 27th, 2000, 01:50 PM
Mad Compie

Hm, guys, guys, guys...listen...

The embedded PC is truly a PC. It contains only a motherboard with a pentium 180MHz CPU and a Hitachi 12" TFT LCD monitor with EloTouch touchscreen interface. The whole thing measures some 30*30*5 cm. I connected a CFD (Compact Flash Disc) of 192MB to it and installed Windows 95 to it.
Because Windows 95 takes about 100MB (without programs like Wordpad, help files, WAV files, ...) the remaining disk space is not very much.
I also considered Windows CE but that costs a lot of money to have it and to develop with it. I also think that CE does not have all Windows' abilities?
Well, that was my question: Windows kernel on a small disk.