May 20, 201610 yr 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?
May 20, 201610 yr Author 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?
May 21, 201610 yr 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.
May 21, 201610 yr 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
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