I am installing Win 98 in a P4 3.2 with 2 gig memory and a 160 gig HD. It is clean install. When it boots I get an error that there is not enough memory. I checked and I have 635.163 of free conventional memory. Almost everything is loaded in upper memory. Any help out there?
Remove a GB of RAM if possible, install Win98, apply tweaks that oldnotbold posted previously, then replace the memory.
If your RAM is a single 2GB stick, (or otherwise irreplacable) then either buy a smaller stick, or go with the Virtual Machine method that oldnotbold recommends. (personally I prefer VMWare myself, I was curious and upped the memory VMWare gave my win98SE install to 2GB, and I saw various errors, but applying the tweaks they mentioned by booting to "command prompt only" allowed it to start just fine.
The only other way to force the install to work with 2GB would be to literally edit the correct INF files on the CD-ROM and burn a new copy of the CD, which is generally more trouble then it's worth. Additionally it might not work, I'm purely guessing as to wether the appropriate settings are even available in the INF files.