Alright, here's the deal. We acquired a fairly crappy Win3.1 computer, which we laughed at, and put down in the basement. It has NO cd-rom drive, 200mb hard drive, 16mb memory (not bad, same as my old 120mhz pentium came with) 386 processor, and.. probably 1 or 2mb video card, and no sound card, along with 3.5 and 5.5inch floppy disk drives. Now, after about a year of having the peice of junk, I've been thinking of either totally messing it up, or trying to turn trash into treasure somehow, without buying anything. A week ago, my friend was trying to get rid of his old 2x2x6 CD-RW drive, but it either wouldnt work, or none of us wanted it. I have a chance that I could call him up and get it tomorrow, but I'm wondering if I'm just wasting my time, I mean, will this even work?
My planned goal is to put the CD-RW drive in (hoping that there are slots for it) and install windows 98SE on it. Today at school I heard some stuff about it not being able to install over it, and I'd have to format and start from scratch, which is no biggie to me. I'm sure that Windows98SE doesnt need all 200mb of space, I'd be quite happy if it even took 198mb, but I think the real number is around 120mb. If not, then Win95 is good enough.
Anyway, what I am wonderring is if there are any hidden problems that will come up, like does Win98 support everything on the computer? Like.. its minimum requirements? Would a 386 be enough? Would the motherboard or whatever else even have ports (dunno what they're called, havent installed a CD-Rom drive before) for a cd-rom drive? What I really need to know is if the hardware will still have support for "futuristic" devices such as a CD-RW drive. Anyone have any ideas or problems for this scenario? Thanks in advance.
My planned goal is to put the CD-RW drive in (hoping that there are slots for it) and install windows 98SE on it. Today at school I heard some stuff about it not being able to install over it, and I'd have to format and start from scratch, which is no biggie to me. I'm sure that Windows98SE doesnt need all 200mb of space, I'd be quite happy if it even took 198mb, but I think the real number is around 120mb. If not, then Win95 is good enough.
Anyway, what I am wonderring is if there are any hidden problems that will come up, like does Win98 support everything on the computer? Like.. its minimum requirements? Would a 386 be enough? Would the motherboard or whatever else even have ports (dunno what they're called, havent installed a CD-Rom drive before) for a cd-rom drive? What I really need to know is if the hardware will still have support for "futuristic" devices such as a CD-RW drive. Anyone have any ideas or problems for this scenario? Thanks in advance.