Adding New Drivers To Win98se Disc

My mate came up with a rather good question the other day after teaching him how to slipstream SP2 in his copy of XP Home Edition. And any drivers he had and security updates so forth. He said could you do this with windows 98se I didn't understand at first.

But he bought an original copy of Amazon.Co.Uk for an older PC and showed me what he ment. He basically showed me the driver folders and said could you in a way add drivers he has to the disc so the installation auto installed them. He also asked could you add any security updates that it needs and any service packs that may be available for it.

I know nLite won't work only for 2000, ME & XP but is there a way for him to re-create his disc with new stuff on and take stuff out like nLite would.

As far as security fixes and updates are concerned though, download 98 SE SP2, it contains all of the 98 SE updates:
http://exuberant.ms11.net/98sesp.html
and you can slipstream it:
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=38193
Though there are some shell tweaks included, that only work if you install it from within windows.

I am fairly sure that 98 Lite Enterprise will slipstream stuff, but it isn't free, and I have never used it myself. 98 Lite Enterprise & Pro will both remove features (including MSHTML, so iexplore and active desktop) and even swap the windows shell for the one from Win 95 (which gives a big speed and stability boost). Enterprise allows you to build install images, but Pro doesn't. However, you can copy the Win 98 install files to an HDD, and run 98 Lite Pro on them without doing an install, then hand build a new modified Win 98 install image using Win ISO, and just copying the modified files over the original ones to preserve the boot information.

Thats a good idea. Although I have not tried, this site has a walkthrough on what you are asking

http://www.geekgirls.com/windows_reinstall_98.htm

Oh thanks guys this will keep my mate busy for a while he still likes 98se that much it's the reason he bought a copy off amazon.co.uk. Seems he wants to build another decent 98 system I've told him that you can use 512mb RAM only. Unless you tweak 98 to except more also pointed the link to solve that too.

Yeah, the service pack solves the 512MB of memory problem. There are a number of projects that add more modern features to Win 98, and it is quite possible to have it running as a stable and modern OS.

Windows 98 Updated Kernel
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=71476
This allows 2000/XP only games and applications to run.

Win 98SE2ME
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=46349
This adds many of the updated features from Me, they list:
Windows 2000 networking code
Better memory managment
Better HDD virtual cache
Better multimedia playback

Maxim Decim drivers
http://www.msfn.org/board/index.php?showtopic=43605
Native support for USB mass storage devices

Do all of these (including 98lite) and you have a very fast OS with most of the important features of XP. Getting rid of internet explorer shell integration and running the windows 95 shell seems to get rid of half of the stability problems. The only major issue is the crap registry managment, it still tends to rot over time.