Hello Adrian,
Don't know about WIndows 98 I think you might be out of luck there,
you can with Windows XP ... NOT easy, but CAN be done ... "apparently".
A search on Google brings up lots of interesting suggestions for you
to read through ;-)
"Unlike Mac OS X, Windows XP is not designed to boot from external
hard drives. Thus, getting XP to boot from an external drive to be
used with your Intel Mac requires some work."
<http://guides.macrumors.com/index.php?title=Booting_Windows_XP_From_An_External_Drive&printable=yes
>
Booting Windows XP From An External Drive:
<http://www.tech-forums.net/pc/f45/booting-windows-xp-external-drive-184940/
>
And a "Moderately Challenging" instructions here: You need a Windows
machine to format the drive NTSF
<http://www.ehow.com/how_4814278_install-windows-external-hard-drive.html
>
Install Windows to a Macintosh USB drive (without Bootcamp):
<http://tubeshards.wordpress.com/2006/12/05/install-windows-to-a-macintosh-usb-drive/
>
Cheers,
Ronni
17" MacBook Pro Intel Core 2 Duo
2.4 GHz / 4GB / 800MHz / 500GB
OS X 10.6 Snow Leopard
On 03/09/2009, at 1:20 PM, Adrian Skehan wrote:
Thanks to all for the responses. The only reason I mentioned
Windows 98 is that I cant seem find the XP installer disk for the
old machine but that's not an issue at this time, my main concern is
installing it onto an external HD.
Regards,
Adrian
adrianske...@me.com
On 03/09/2009, at 11:04 AM, Johann Kienbrandt wrote:
hi Adrian,
you could use VirtualBox from sun, it does the same as parallels
and it is free
regards johann
On 03/09/2009, at 10:07 , Clyde McLennan wrote:
Hi Adrian,
Windows 98 should work fine with Parallels, although Parallels v4
is not that cheap. see: http://www.parallels.com/products/
desktop/ The documentation doesn't say anything about Win 98, but
the software has on loading virtual machines allows you to specify
Win 98.
The beauty of Parallels over Bootcamp is that you can run your
windows applications just as if they were another Mac application
(in Coherence mode). Also its a great way to run other operating
systems - eg, I have just been trying out Windows 7, and I often
try various versions of Linux.
I'm not too sure what applications you want to run on Win 98, but
using these virtual machines like Parallels consumes some load on
the system. For example, sometimes when playing music on Windows
(using some windows applications for editing music), you get
little hiccups, especially if the Mac machine is busy doing disc
and internet processing.
Clyde McLennan
On 03/09/2009, at 9:43 AM, Adrian Skehan wrote:
Good morning all,
I have an old (very old) windows machine that I occasionally use
to look at some Family History Resource CDs' and I would like to
get rid of it if possible. Is it possible to install windows (98
works ok.) onto a 100 GB Firewire external HD attached to an
Intel machine in order to look at these CDs'? I don't want to
install it on the computer due to disk space considerations.
Regards,
Adrian
adrianske...@me.com
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