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"my Win95 OSR2.1 installation was stable and crash-free, with none of these problems... seriously thinking about going back to that for the time being."
Might be a good idea if you want a dual boot system. Do try to get your hands on WIN 98SE as it has some good mods that WIN 95 doesn't. i.e.properly supported drivers for USB & 32bit formating of the hard drive so you aren't limited to the 2GB partition sizes.
Also try and keep the whole of the Win OS and it's swapfile on one partition, as that is how windows expects to find and manage it.
I would also recomend you having two patitions of roughly equal size. Load windows in the fist and then Linux in the other.
You should see a improvement when you have done the above. Just done a similer job on one of my PC's (an old 166MMX too!!
)and it seems to be running ok.
Good Luck
OzPax1
