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Originally posted by 272922032 at 2006-4-24 12:35:
Actually, for the Windows 98 on the CD, it doesn't matter whether it's compressed or not. The 700M CD space is enough, and you can collect many software and drivers. The key is the network card and graphics card drivers, and the motherboard drivers are also recommended to be installed...

The problem is that after installing the above various drivers, the boot CD is bound to a certain (or some) hardware drivers, and it cannot be made into a universal boot CD for all hardware environments

Originally posted by fujianabc at 2006-4-24 21:32:

How can you tell? Specifically, in what aspects?

PE environment and Win98 boot from CD each have their own advantages. The biggest problems I think with the PE environment are 4:

1. Relatively much larger in size
2. Boot speed is very slow, especially the CD-boot version of PE, and even more so on relatively bad CD drives, heh
3. Also the most fatal, the hardware compatibility of CD-boot PE is not as good as that of 98. Because it cannot work in DOS/BIOS compatible mode. For example, many BIOS INT13 support SATA RAID even SCSI RAID access. At this time, CD-boot 98 can directly read the disk through BIOS, so it can access the disk array normally without any drivers. CD-boot PE in many cases cannot, and must have the correct chipset drivers added when building it. For devices like network cards, CD drives, etc., although 98 cannot directly support them, as long as such drivers are loaded in DOS in advance, 98 can also access them in DOS compatible mode. Loading drivers under DOS is after all more convenient than rebuilding the WinPE environment.
4. It is too difficult to customize the API of the WinPE environment, which also restricts the applications that can run in this environment. Customizing the API of CD-boot 98 is very convenient. However, some relatively new APIs are not available even in the full version of 98, and applications in Unicode version need MSLU and support during compilation.

In addition to the above points, it seems that PE completely surpasses 98

Reply to the person upstairs:
1. After some simplification of PE and 98, both PE and 98 are around 100M, and the sizes are not much different;
2. If it is a pure CD boot, 98 is not fast either. Now both 98 and PE can use ramdisk boot, and the speed is much faster than pure CD boot;
3. Loading drivers in DOS and then booting 98 will affect the performance of 98. It is better for 98 to use 32-bit drivers. If PE is controlled within more than 100MB, it can include many disk drivers and network card drivers, and in most cases, there is no need to manually add drivers. In addition, you can also add drivers by pressing F6 before PE starts.

The only thing that personally feels that 98 is better than PE is the ability to freely switch between Win and DOS.

98 with Chinese font streamlined to 20MB is very easy, right? The smallest Chinese 98 can be streamlined to 12MB, heh heh

Below 20MB, Windows 98 is not very useful. Generally, the Fault Recovery Console is more useful, or just make a CD version of Windows 3.2

No, the 20M one already includes the complete Win32 API, even including the ddraw API. Plus the commonly used MFC and VC runtime lib, it's about 25M. This environment is very useful when doing fault diagnosis. Since it works in DOS compatibility mode, it can run various tools in both Win32 and DOS at the same time, such as disk repair, data rescue, etc.