I wish this was possible today. But I won't get a small Windows 10 distribution no matter how hard I try or how much I'm willing to pay.
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Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
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Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#12Love this. Now someone show me how to make a nano Windows 10 installation without all the telemetry BS. Essentially the kernel only with custom explorer.exe. Experimented with modding Hyper-V Server (the free one) with some success, but too many DLLs missing and multimedia functions don't work.
It is still Windows 10, but Windows LTSC would be a start.
Works fine for daily use after you restore some small things.
Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#13I used to do this to have more space on my old machine. Sadly I deleted my first drawings made in Windows Paint
I had a friend that did this to run Windows 3.0 (IIRC) on his old 286 from a single floppy.
Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#14I actually used this to run Windows in a BOSCH emulator on my first smartphone - HTC TyTN II. It was painfully slow and unusable for any practical purposes.
What's a BOSCH emulator? Or is this a "bochs" typo?
Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#15I actually used this to run Windows in a BOSCH emulator on my first smartphone - HTC TyTN II. It was painfully slow and unusable for any practical purposes.
> BOSCH emulator
Do you perhaps mean Bochs[1]? I've seen it booting Windows 95 on an early PSP and similar stunts, so running Windows inside Bochs on a smartphone would IMO not be that much out of the ordinary.
Or is there really a PC emulator from BOSCH[2] available somewhere?
Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#16Silly it has such complex instructions, instead of a script. Discourages me from even trying this... can't be that good if the person that made it couldn't even make a script.
Instructions are not complex, they're the opposite - they're extremely simple.
Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#17I actually used this to run Windows in a BOSCH emulator on my first smartphone - HTC TyTN II. It was painfully slow and unusable for any practical purposes.
> BOSCH emulator Do you perhaps mean Bochs[1]? I've seen it booting Windows 95 on an early PSP and similar stunts, so running Windows inside Bochs on a smartphone would IMO not be that much out of the ordinary. Or is there really a PC emulator from BOSCH[2] available somewhere? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochs [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH
It's obvious that he meant Bochs, no need to play dumb.
Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#18I actually used this to run Windows in a BOSCH emulator on my first smartphone - HTC TyTN II. It was painfully slow and unusable for any practical purposes.
> BOSCH emulator Do you perhaps mean Bochs[1]? I've seen it booting Windows 95 on an early PSP and similar stunts, so running Windows inside Bochs on a smartphone would IMO not be that much out of the ordinary. Or is there really a PC emulator from BOSCH[2] available somewhere? [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bochs [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bosch_GmbH
Bosch emulator to emulate the advantages of antilock brake systems.
Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#19This 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).
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.
Re: Nano98: Windows 98 that boots and runs under 5MB (2003)
#20I wish this was possible today. But I won't get a small Windows 10 distribution no matter how hard I try or how much I'm willing to pay.
You can, however, get Windows AME, which is kinda interesting.