Re:Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
by fdfsasd22323 on Monday September 20, 2021 @07:00AM
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This is a pretty cool find! I feel inclined to share my project from a while ago, where the idea was (inspired by Dockerfiles) to automate the building of a working Windows 98 installation in QEMU.
It's fairly janky and slow, but it does what it promises and starting from usual installation media will produce a HDD image with Windows 98 installed and somewhat customised (containing some files I wanted and a custom desktop wallpaper and such).
EDIT: Looking closer, it would be possible to steal tips from this guide to make it quicker and faster probably - although the aim with Paschke was to start from a vanilla installation media, instead of just putting the minimum files needed into a disk image.
It's fairly janky and slow, but it does what it promises and starting from usual installation media will produce a HDD image with Windows 98 installed and somewhat customised (containing some files I wanted and a custom desktop wallpaper and such).
https://github.com/visual2000/paschke
EDIT: Looking closer, it would be possible to steal tips from this guide to make it quicker and faster probably - although the aim with Paschke was to start from a vanilla installation media, instead of just putting the minimum files needed into a disk image.