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M.Blackmore wrote: > I've retired my old shuttle athlon to be a games and browsing machine > for my 5 yr old to sit beside me in the study and play lego trains, web > games, and the like. This requires both Win98se for a collection of 90s > era games that are fine for his needs, and XP for his older sister to > get her fix of Sims addiction. NEITHER of these machines will be > internet (or even network) enabled. Edubuntu will be the only internet > connection option. > > However, having dug out my ancient MSDN windows 98 cd (from the days 8 > or 9 years ago I got that sort of thing) and repartitioned the machine > for triple booting, so I thought I'd connect up quickly for a MS update > for any bug fixes and directx up until support stopped in '06 and then > disconnect tcp/ip etc. > > Unfortunately the MS website reports and error and no update seems > possible. Can't go anywhere so pulled the plug before anything found > me... > > So. Is there a way of downloading all the bug fixes and security patches > (though without internet connectivity the latter are probably somewhat > irrelevant) using a linux boot, save to disk or burn a CD, and then do a > service pack sort of thing from that? > > Where does one find the source for such downloads? I don't have a clue > to where too look. > > Not sure if it's still available but install Firefox and then do a search for Windiz update. It's a Firefox plugin which checks what updates are required and downloads them direct from Microsoft. Although Windows 98 is no longer supported you should still be able to get the old updates this way. Otherwise, check the proxy settings in Internet Explorer, sometimes it's set to Auto Detect and it might cause a problem (it's happened to me a couple of times). Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html