Tweek16
10-19-2009, 01:51 AM
Hi,
I wanted to install a few operating systems on a 300 GB HDD I had lying around, and so I set about installing Windows 95. It has a lot of sentimental value to me as it was the first OS I ever interacted with, and a lot of the games I played as a child were designed for DOS/Win95.
I gathered info on how to install Windows 95, I made a partition using the boot diskette (it's 2 GB's, the max allowed for Win95) and installed Windows 95... no problem up to here. There were no errors during installation, the system re-booted and when the windows logo screen appears the computer gives me an error, "Insufficient memory to initialize Windows"
"Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove unnecessary utilities from your config.sys and autoexec.bat files, and restart your computer"
I played with it for awhile and then decided to install Ubuntu Studio (which, after a few attempts, installed correctly). The error still happens when trying to boot Windows 95.
Now, I did put all the utilities checked for the install (I'm using a system with 2GB RAM and a 1.6GHz Processor, which in my estimation is overkill for this OS), maybe that has something to do with it. I'm also thinking that maybe Win95 cannot address the 2GB RAM memory correctly. I replaced the 2GB memory with a 256 MB RAM but it still had the same error.
My question is, can I actually have Windows 95 in a separate partition and running on the type of system I just described? I read alot about the max allowable hard disk space (2GB), but there was no mention of max RAM allowable or anything like that. Perhaps I should do a reinstall, without checking so many utilities/optional stuff? Or is this an inherent incompatibility issue (Win95 vs. hardware)?
I wanted to install a few operating systems on a 300 GB HDD I had lying around, and so I set about installing Windows 95. It has a lot of sentimental value to me as it was the first OS I ever interacted with, and a lot of the games I played as a child were designed for DOS/Win95.
I gathered info on how to install Windows 95, I made a partition using the boot diskette (it's 2 GB's, the max allowed for Win95) and installed Windows 95... no problem up to here. There were no errors during installation, the system re-booted and when the windows logo screen appears the computer gives me an error, "Insufficient memory to initialize Windows"
"Quit one or more memory-resident programs or remove unnecessary utilities from your config.sys and autoexec.bat files, and restart your computer"
I played with it for awhile and then decided to install Ubuntu Studio (which, after a few attempts, installed correctly). The error still happens when trying to boot Windows 95.
Now, I did put all the utilities checked for the install (I'm using a system with 2GB RAM and a 1.6GHz Processor, which in my estimation is overkill for this OS), maybe that has something to do with it. I'm also thinking that maybe Win95 cannot address the 2GB RAM memory correctly. I replaced the 2GB memory with a 256 MB RAM but it still had the same error.
My question is, can I actually have Windows 95 in a separate partition and running on the type of system I just described? I read alot about the max allowable hard disk space (2GB), but there was no mention of max RAM allowable or anything like that. Perhaps I should do a reinstall, without checking so many utilities/optional stuff? Or is this an inherent incompatibility issue (Win95 vs. hardware)?