DeadDude Posted January 15, 2007 Share Posted January 15, 2007 Howdy y'all.I've felt a little ambitious, and decided to attempt a "custom-driver loaded, pre-fab, total software packages installed" Live 98SE CD or DVD.I know the first step is actually creating a partition, installing 98SE, updating, etc...Then I put it all on a bootable CD/DVD...Now what?I got an E1705 Dell laptop with **all** the bells and whistles. I got 2 gigs ram, so loading the swapfile to a ram drive isn't a problem... and creating another ram drive for system usage isn't a problem, either...But, how the hell do I do it? Has anyone ever made a 'live' 98 cd? or a DVD? would it matter if I use a DVD?I already know 98 doesn't do PCI-E, but I am fairly confident I can at least make it usable for DOS stuff under 98...I have access to all the partition toolz and I can get access to almost any program neccessary... I just don't know *what* software...BartPE is for WinXP and whatnot... so what's for 98?I got NTFS on my hard drive, but I could rearrange for a small (SMALL <200Megs) partition, but I don't want actual Windows on it... I got thumbdrives, and this system will boot from it. So, if I need to load a floppy to enable something, I can use that for it. I also have a built-in flash reader, and a few spare 128meg MS stick PROs... Should I try to install to that first? Or instead? I like the Knoppix format; having LOADS of apps on the DVD is awesome. And I know that I'll have to code a LOT of batch files, that's ok. I just want to be able to do it- not to mention it would help troubleshoot for others... All my boxes run a flavor of XP... although I have gotten 98 booted on my PDA *once*... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadDude Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 No takers, eh?Well, I did some browsing, and found a live ReachOS cd....anyone think I could take a stab at moving stuff around and using that as a base?I think it might not work since ROS is XP/NT based... ideas?Would it be better to start with a clean partition, installing 98SE with everything, installing software, and configuring ram disks... then burning the whole thing onto a DVD? Sounds like the right idea, but I don't know how to create the DVD from a virtual disk on VMWare... not to mention I can't load drivers into it this way, either....Would the pasthrough dpmi thingy setting allow the virtual pc to see the real hardware for installing drivers? If so, I still need to figure out how to burn that virtual partition to a DVD that is bootable and usable... "live" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
amocanu Posted January 16, 2007 Share Posted January 16, 2007 here is something usefull: Windows 98 on CD - http://www.lachiesadicristo.it/w98cd/page1.htm Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadDude Posted January 16, 2007 Author Share Posted January 16, 2007 AWESOME!!!Thank you for that link! It is *exactly* what I need! I'll post back when I get a working iso... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Randy_Rivers Posted January 21, 2007 Share Posted January 21, 2007 98se live cd .this is the last free version and it works excellent.get it here. 98selivecd Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DeadDude Posted January 22, 2007 Author Share Posted January 22, 2007 snagged, but still untested... thank you *very* much. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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