[NTLUG:Discuss] slightly OT - the fate of this box

[fredjame]

This starts out sounding like a MS question, but hang in there a little 
bit, please

I am trying to help a friend get a "gift horse" off the ground.

The box is a laptop they got for free (micropc.com TransPort LT) with NT 
installed - P-III 600MHz, 256 MB memory, 10 GB HD, built in NIC, 
swapable CD and Floppy drives (share a single bay), stuff like that.  
They want to fit it up for their little kids (very young) to play games 
on (Disney stuff).  All the games are Win95/98 compatible.

I got the NT off, got the thing to boot, added CD support, and I can 
install their OS, but...

Problem, the Win98 they have knows nada about the NIC, so I cannot even 
download the drivers to improve the display (only does 16 colors!) and 
stuff - yeah I could put it all on a CD and go from there but...

I got to thinking it would be wonderful (IMHO) to introduce a bit of 
Linux to the kids while we are at it - if that isn't too sneaky - so I 
want to ask for some opinions and/or advise.

What if I loaded say Mandrake 9.1 and Win4Lin 5.x, and then installed 
their Win98 into the Win4Lin (or I could do Red Hat 7.3 and VMware 
Workstation 4)?  Does anybody think the Disney games would play alright 
there?

Any help offered will be appreciated.

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