Tool to make lightning quick installs of Windows 98

Mu0n

Active Tinkerer
Oct 29, 2021
603
558
93
Quebec
www.youtube.com
1684930297593.png


Ryan from Everything is broken garage shared this useful tidbit of news for fans of retro PCs that need to install Windows 98. I know lots of people end up using the image from winworldpc, and that's fine if you want authenticity but I can't explain why or how but, that image has failed me on occasion.

Enter this github project:

a set of tools and python script to prepare a lean and mean windows install, whether it be on a CD, a USB stick or from a minimalist floppy disk. Tons of choices for tons of situations. They also have a prepared disc on archive.org with already chosen options.

They claim it makes windows installation between 60-90 seconds sometimes! I have got to try this out!
 

Stinkerton18

Moderator
Staff member
Aug 18, 2022
60
46
18
And here I've just been doing it via batch script to copy the cabs/run setup with the various skip flags enabled...