I've gotten Windows 98 installed under VMWare (the problem was with using
my old SCSI CD-R as a CD-ROM; when I put the IDE CD-ROM drive back in, it
went smoothly), and set up IP masquerading, and now I can access the web
with a web browser that's actually supported. To test it out I decided to
go to
SissyFight. Whilst downloading
Shockwave (and doing a few other things), Windows bluescreened (as it does).
The underlying Linux system was entirely unaffected.
Life is good,
I get the feeling I'll end up buying a VMWare license; it's a very useful piece of software.