I just completed the project described at http://www.heise.de/ct/english/99/11/206/ . Yes, I got Win95 running from a bootable CD that way. Interesting and very time-consuming. Also very particularized to the machine you build it for (could doubtless be made more generic). But some progs (e.g., browsers like Kmeleon) aren't happy with running from non-writeable media and just grind to a halt after a few pages. IE 3.0 seems to hum along happily, though. I think maybe installing Win to a ramdisk and running it from there would be a better option for what I'm trying to do. The most interesting project I've come across in that respect is the following:
"We now offer a means of installing a tiny version (about 7 Meg) of Windows 98 (with the 95 shell) that should be portable over a wide variety of machines. The tiny install will be of limited use (although it makes a great troubleshooting tool) but the good news is that there is now a means of loading drivers and applications to customize a minimal windows installation specific to your machine. Work on this customization has been ongoing for the last few weeks, and will be revealed over the coming weeks." http://www.winimize.com/ This is NOT the 98lite project, but a more open-sourceish one not aimed (at least for now) at selling you things. James
