Run win98 off a cd and burn a cd....possible

[Lithiem]

Wish i could say that it helped ..
the only dif. is; it doesnt seem to be making a system.dat file anymore - but it still makes it\'s own win.ini & system.ini files.. and runs as if it were freshly booted from setup - Standard PCI video card in 640x480x16 color mode, no NIC, etc...

As for why, I hate Dual boot but want XP on here.. yet still need 98 for certain things- like DJGPP and some games that i love

[Anonymous]

go to http://www.qualystem.com, their program does all for you, just make sure you have your OS small enough to fit on CD, you can use a program from www.pclite.com to make your OS smaller by removing some garbage that Microsucks adds to the OS.
I created a win98 OS with office97 and other apps using these programs, all fits on a 700mb CD.

[Anonymous]

u can run knoppix (linux distribution) from a cd, with it you can write cd\'s. It\'s able to mount every standard file system...

~Progster

[Anonymous]

Windows PE is now available...runs of a cd....try it

[A74Martel]

The only link you need is the following:
http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/11/206/
It is a german site translated to english so the grammar is not perfect, but well worth it to any tech that wants a bootable 32 bit windows9598 cd.
Good luck the going is ruff but the final product is amazing!!

[Space Between]

There is all sort\'s of linux distro\'s that will run of disc besides the one\'s mentioned here...any of them will most likely do. The thread above he mentions it can mount any filesystem...so that is way better.

running win98 off a cd would only allow you to use fat32/16...so this is no where near as versatile as the linux distro\'s. The linux distro\'s can do fat32/16 and a world more of file systems...plus it\'s quicker.

i thought it would be cool at first myself to run 98 off a cd...but really i cant think of 1 single reason why to run 98 off a cd instead of a linux distro...really running 98 off a cd is far far more inferior to running linux off a cd.

pick one of the linux distro\'s mentioned in this thread and work with those...you will be much happier with your result\'s...why waste time with inferiority?

[Technohead]

Hi,  I just saw this post and thought I would let you know that a user called ArvUK has recently sucessfully tried this and has detailed it in the Romulus2 forum in the following thread;

http://www.romulus2.com/forum/showthread.p...&threadid=10415

(Cut and paste it into your browser)

He is quite specific, and verily it does indeed work http://images.thetechguide.com/forum/public/style_emoticons/<#EMO_DIR#>/wink.gif\' class=\'bbc_emoticon\' alt=\'\' />

[Anonymous]

Where do you get Windows PE from?

[Slinkie Slinkums]

[quote name=\'Space Between\' date=\'Sep 27 2001, 12:17 PM\']If anybody finds some info to running 98 off a cd post the links..i. cant find them anywhere anymore...please post them,.[/quote]
 I happened to see your question. It ***CAN*** be done.
I did it! The web page you seek is:
http://www.heise.de/ct/engligh/99/11/206/

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[Jazkal2]

Have you thought of using WindowsPE instead of Win98? It's a mini version of XP, will bootup on CD on just about any hardware out there.

Bart has a new tool that will allow you to create your WinPE cd, all that is required is that you have WinXP installed on a computer, and have the WinXP install CD.

Bart's PE Builder

Check it out,

- Jazkal

[krazykulguy]

there is a way to make a cd-only dist of linux.
all that needs to be added to that is a vm and a vm harddisk with win9x or any OS pre loaded on it.
this can be done because a vm program like vmware has the option of loading the vm disk in readonly so it will work off of CD-rom.

the hardest part would be to make a cd-bootable dist of linux with the vm software added in all ready configured and pointing to the vmdisk.

the only other way is to load a img of pre-loaded win9x disk into a RAM drive and keep that RAM hidden from the OS.

[Professor Stein]

Why not use a 500MB Ramdrive off your 1GB DDR ram and run win98 from there?

Use a win98 boot floppy; edit autoexec.bat/config.sys with the strings needed.

Install win98 to your Ramdrive, install the software you need copy it over to a temp HD. With xcopy/s/e from dos prompt, or just get it over there.

Make a bootable cdrom that copys the temp stored OS over to the Ramdrive and run it.

I always have a Bootable cdrom, with win98 and a cdrw in my pocket when I visit my friends. Then I don’t need to disturb their OS if I want to surf on ADSL or test the network.

NB! I still have problems with installing XP in to the Ramdrive. But I like the old 98 bugger, so maybe I give it a try another time.

Greetings from
Professor Stein.