What happened to the Windows 98 Unattended CD?

[FantasyAcquiesce]

I'm curious, I looked at older posts on MSFN and found a few mentions of the Unattended Boot Disc. Why was the once popular disc removed? It seems to have disappeared off the face of the earth when I tried googling it. Is it ever possible to bring it back?

[dencorso]

Because things tend to fall by themselves into the memory hole, given enough time.

[FantasyAcquiesce]

3 hours ago, dencorso said:

Because things tend to fall by themselves into the memory hole, given enough time.

Like how come there's no way to download?

[LoneCrusader]

The original incarnation of the UBCD apparently included the 98SE Setup files along with a MSBATCH.INF which provided a Product Key. This forced the project to be considered "warez" and a violation of copyright. MSFN cannot be the host of such a project or condone the posting of links to it as such.

Now...This was all before my time here, and discussion of the issue since has been pretty much "taboo." I assume one could create a package that included everything from the original except these two problem items and it might be acceptable; but in the end it's not my decision.

[jaclaz]

Just to disambiguate, the UBCD is usually a reference to this project (Ultimate Boot CD):
http://www.ultimatebootcd.com/

or to this other one (Ultimate Boot CD for Windows):
http://www.ubcd4win.org/

The "Unattended and Updated  Boot CD for Windows 98" (IF this is what ~♥Aiko♥Chan♥is referencing) was not officially called UBCD (as a matter of fact it did include the UBCD, but that's another story), files were called Win98_UBCD ...:

And I really don't think it was to be considered "warez", it was just a builder and you had to provide the files and of course the key, AFAICR, though the latest project files have not been cached AFAIK, some info is still available:

https://web.archive.org/web/20070911110929/http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=53392

https://web.archive.org/web/20070912053035/http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=88008

and the earlier 35r1 version of the files can still be obtained (still through Wayback Machine):
https://web.archive.org/web/20061223230206/http://www.iinet.net.au/~hiandy/code35r1.zip

jaclaz