Definitely not. What I'm using is a hybrid of Wengier's boot disk and the WIN98 boot disk. Below is the content shown when executing CONFIG.SYS:
dos=HIGH,UMB ?Y
stacks=9,256 ?Y
DEVICE=HIMEM.SYS ?Y
HIMEM v7.10 (Revision 4.00.1102)
Copyright (c) 1989-2001 Datalight, Inc.
Using AT+ A20 Control (ON)
32 XMS handles available.
Minimum HMA usage is 0K.
DEVICE=EMM386 RAM ?Y
Bad or Missing Device (EMM386)
DeviceHigh=USBASPI.SYS ?Y
ASPI for UHCI/OHCI USB mass-storage Version 1.07
Copyright(C) 2001 NOVAC Co.,Ltd.
USBASPI : PCI UHCI/OHCI contoller not found.
DeviceHigh=DI1000DD.SYS ?
DI1000 ASPI DISK Driver Ver 2.00
Copyright(C)2001 NOVAC Co.,Ltd.
ASPI Manager not installed.
DeviceHigh=VIDE-CDD.SYS /D:CDROM1 ?Y
IDE/ATAPI CD-ROM Device Driver Version 2.14 10:48:22 02/17/98
CD-ROM drive #0 found on 170h port master device, v3.0
devicehigh=RAMDRIVE.SYS /E 8192 ?Y
Microsoft RAMDrive version 3.06 virtual disk D:
Disk size: 8,192k
Sector size: 512 bytes
Allocation unit: 8 sectors
Directory entries: 64
shell=command.com /p /e:640 ?Y
files=30 ?Y
buffers=30,0 ?Y
lastdrive=Z ?Y
NUMLOCK=ON ?Y