LoneCrusader

Have a look at this thread. Especially my Post #4.

That's what I already use. Works great for flash sticks, but it doesn't seem to work for USB hard drives. Well, at least not correctly; it installs a USB Mass Storage Port, but the drive doesn't appear. Thanks for the thought, though, and for the info on how to modify it for unrecognised flash sticks. Might come in handy in the future. sorry man, but those usb flash drivers for Win95 osr2x don't work with other usb mass storage devices like usb card readers and usb hard drives. and many USB HDDs require USB 2.0 support; both hardware [the usb2 ports] and software [the usb2 drivers for hi-speed 480mbps data transfers]. so far, there are no usb 2.0 drivers out there that will make your usb hard drive work under 95 [only w98 and above can try out usb 2.0]. and you only get USB 1.x support on Win95 sr2x with those usb flash drivers. tough luck, dude! USB hard drives are usually at least USB 2.0 based devices and don't function well or not at all if connected to USB 1.x ports. take it from experience. you're better off using usb flash drives instead. Wrong again. You mentioned PassingBy's NUSB for 98 FE, but you forgot that he also did a USB package for Windows 95, which you were also critical of at the time. I have used it with a variety of USB 2.0 Flash drives, and it has worked with every single drive I've thrown at it. It does have a bug, but this appears to be a failure in the driver files themselves, (which, for the record, are the SAME files as in the "cruzerwin95" package, just renamed internally and externally) not in PassingBy's work. The bug is this: only ONE USB device can be connected ONE time per Windows session. Reconnecting a device after it has been unplugged, or trying to plug in a second device after one has been used does not work. Oh, and the drivers used by Nathan Lineback and by PassingBy originally come from a USB CompactFlash reader device. Doesn't work with card readers, eh? (I am currently trying to find a better solution for this. I have found another 95-compatible driver stack {also from a USB Card reader, imagine that? } that works perfectly for some USB HDD's and Flash Drives, but behaves strangely with others for no apparent reason. Work continues.)

Not exactly. There is a 98 FE version. Maybe not. But I doubt there's a whole lot of difference in what would need to be changed. Instructions for patching it are somewhere in the NUSB thread. Nonetheless, it's good to have any contribution to Windows 9x these days.

This has already been addressed in NUSB for quite some time...

WinImage MagicISO

It can be done, but you would need to extract the Bootable Floppy Image from your .ISO, then open it with, say, WinImage, and then edit the files inside. It will contain AUTOEXEC.BAT, CONFIG.SYS, etc. When you're done editing, re-insert the image back into the .ISO. I did something similar to this with my FIX95CPU project. The .ISO inside is bootable, and auto-boots into the FIX95CPU script.

Naturally. Just pointing it out for clarification here, as this is a Windows 9x forum, and since you specifically named DOS and Win 3.x as being unable to read it, it gives the impression that Windows 95 would be able to read it. Do we have any Wikipedia editors present that would care to fix it there?

Technically that page should differentiate versions of Windows 9x. Windows 95 does NOT natively support UDF. Thanks to rloew, UDF 1.02 support is now available for Windows 95, but before this would have required third-party reader/writer software.

What 98SE updates, if any, do you have installed? Maybe unrelated to your specific problem, but you might have a look at this update: (which is no doubt included in the Unofficial Service Pack if you want to go that route ) http://support.microsoft.com/?id=239887 http://download.microsoft.com/download/d/d/8/dd8e4f2d-3b66-41d7-8a4a-cefefd8deb2c/4756US8.EXE

I think this is what you're looking for.

Don't know whether it will be useful or not, but I saw this thread and remembered that some of the motherboards I have collected to build Windows 9x systems have manuals that specifically state that only one floppy drive is supported. This despite the fact that the same boards support IDE RAID, and have SATA ports, so theoretically could support 8 or more "other" drives.

When you get ready to tackle Windows 95 let me know. Just kidding

Yes - the OP disregarded your recommendation. I thought that was directed at me. Sorry!

Problem? I don't see "IDE" anywhere in what the OP had posted, and somehow I don't think SATA "RAID" is going to help run Windows 9x.

No problem. I will be most anxious to hear your results. As I noted I have not been able to get that installer to run on a 98SE system (and I was using an Intel-manufactured i865 board when I tried to run it). I don't remember the exact problem now, I think it was a "Device attached to the system is not functioning" or a "missing export" or something like that when it refuses to run. Don't think I ever tested it on Windows ME. I reverted to the older one that works and haven't experimented with it since.

Yes. 98SE Support continued until AT LEAST the 875 Chipset (using version 6.3.0.1007 of the INF Update utility), because I have several 875 Chipset motherboards that work with 98SE. 95 and 98FE support ended with the 845 Chipset (and version 3.20.1008 of the INF Update Utility). There is a package at Intel's Website that CLAIMS to support Windows 98SE/ME and claims support for up to the 925 Series Chipset, HOWEVER, I cannot get the installer to run on a 98SE System. I've been meaning to dig deeper into the issue, but haven't had the opportunity. Maybe someone would care to inspect the file and see if there is anything useful for Windows 9X in it?

To use Windows 95 on >2.1 GHz processors you will need my FIX95CPU patch. As previously noted it is in the "member projects" section. If you can set your SATA Hard Drive to IDE compatibility mode, then you may have some chance of loading the OS. Otherwise you would need RLoew's SATA patch. You will have to live without drivers for your motherboard as there are no Windows 95 drivers for Intel Chipsets later than 845.

If you can figure out which updates are language specific, you can try requesting the HotFixes through MDGx's HotFix Request Form. Just enter the MSKB article numbers from the language specific updates and when you're redirected to Microsoft you can choose Swedish if they are still available. Good Luck!

Well, there is a free version of 98Lite, but its capabilities are limited. RLoew's tools are not free. So you're left with this. W98_Slip. Good Luck!

There is 98Lite, which claims to support WinME as well. Other than that, the only tools that I know of that could be used for this are "slipstreamers." This would be a very complicated and involved way of achieving what you want, as it must all be done by hand, editing INF's, running & editing batch scripts, etc etc. No fancy GUI app with checkboxes. There was an attempt to create a 98SE slipstreamer here on the forum, but I don't know if all of the required components are still available, or how much success it achieved. I have a special set of slipstreaming tools that I have purchased from RLoew...

I have no experience with VIA Boards; or with systems using a combination of IDE & SATA drives (at least not yet ) so I don't know how much more help I can give you. You should check the settings for the IDE & SATA controllers in the BIOS. I would think that if you can use your optical drives in Linux, then this should not be a problem, but the Secondary IDE channel may be disabled, or otherwise set to something that Win98SE sees as a "non-standard" setting.

I assume you have already created, formatted, and set active a partition as outlined by submix8c. First - after the first reboot of SETUP, you do NOT need to boot from a floppy or the CD. SETUP should have made the hard drive bootable. If you reboot from the floppy or CD and run SETUP again, it will start from the beginning. Second - you say you copied the contents of the Win98SE CD to a folder called C:\WIN. You do NOT need to copy the entire CD. You only need to copy the \WIN98 folder to the hard drive. If you copied the entire CD, then called SETUP.EXE in C:\WIN, then you are running the SETUP that is in the root directory of the CDROM, not the SETUP from inside the \WIN98 folder. (I've never seen this done, so it may not matter, but it also may be contributing to your issues. )

You must place your customized MSBATCH.INF in the \WIN98 folder with SETUP.EXE and the .CAB files. If you have done this, SETUP will use it automatically without specifying it as a command argument.

Just a quick thumbs up from a Windows 9X DieHard. More power to you all for hanging on to what you like and refusing to simply go with the flow. This is the greatest obstacle for us 9x'ers as well.

Actually, chances are it won't fail me. Because after that particular learning experience and the mess that MKISOFS made of my project, when I'm creating a CD/DVD that I plan to use (or use part(s) of) in DOS I PLAN AHEAD and use 8.3 filenames and so forth.