Before I go on with this post I want to make sure everyone knows that I am NOT asking for hirens cd. I am not asking about getting pirated software. I am merely wondering if anyone has information on Mini98.

With that out of the way on to my question. I see on hirens bootcd 7 (the latest version) it has a bootable Mini98. It is under 13 megs and runs very quickly. It can run off of ramdisk or the c: drive (it copies itself to the c drive then runs.)

I want to know if anyone knows anything about this. Did he make it himself or is this a well known version? I know of a few tutorials on making bootable windows 98 cds, but none of them come close to the ease, speed, and size of this one.

I am wanting to make a bootable windows 98 cd for repair work on older systems where a bartpe disc is not a good idea. So any information on this Mini98 would be nice.

Before I go on with this post I want to make sure everyone knows that I am NOT asking for hirens cd.  I am not asking about getting pirated software.  I am merely wondering if anyone has information on Mini98.

With that out of the way on to my question.  I see on hirens bootcd 7 (the latest version) it has a bootable Mini98.  It is under 13 megs and runs very quickly.  It can run off of ramdisk or the c: drive (it copies itself to the c drive then runs.)

I want to know if anyone knows anything about this.  Did he make it himself or is this a well known version?  I know of a few tutorials on making bootable windows 98 cds, but none of them come close to the ease, speed, and size of this one.

I am wanting to make a bootable windows 98 cd for repair work on older systems where a bartpe disc is not a good idea.  So any information on this Mini98 would be nice.

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Sorry, we can't exactly discuss the content of Hiren's Boot CD according to the rules:

Discussion of circumventing activation/timebombs/keygens or any other illegal activity will also not be tolerated.

However, these links may help you:

http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8gus/nano98/

http://osfocus.net/article.asp?PostID=1

I wasnt really wanting to discuss hirens cd, thats just the only place I have seen a good working bootable win98 that runs from ramdisk and is that small.

It was merely a point of reference.

You be needing this link. It's the proggie that makes Mini98 from real 98 source: http://scp.gmxhome.de/msdos71/

I did the Nano98 tutorial from http://www.etek.chalmers.se/~e8gus/nano98/

After the reboot once I finished it windows starts to load and I get the logo.sys coming up and animating, it then flashes a message across the screen real quick and shuts down. The message is:

You can now safely turn off your computer.               
If you want to restart your computer, press CTRL+ALT+DEL.

Anyone have any ideas here?

Why did you have to start a new topic when the other one was perfectly fine??

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I started a new one because mini98 and nano98 are different projects. If you dont want that, its cool with me, I can keep it all as one.

I started a new one because mini98 and nano98 are different projects.  If you dont want that, its cool with me, I can keep it all as one.

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No problem. We just like to keep things in one place so its easier to find! Just a reminder for next time!