Dobbins etc wrote:

I am trying to install Win98 onto a flash drive (in my case 8 GB
flash) as detailed he

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qd7cDbtwj4

I didn't watch the whole video, but I don't see how Win-98 setup can
transition from 16-bit "DOS" mode to 32-bit protected mode operation to
complete the setup without having the USB drivers installed and working.

Just having a usb-connected thumb drive accessible to a computer booted
into DOS is not an easy thing to do.

I suggest you remove the hard drive of the target machine and slave it
to another working PC and (a) format the drive as Fat32 with the /s
switch so that the drive will boot into dos, and (b) copy the contents
of a win-98 CD to the drive in some sub-directory (call it "win98-cd")
and then place the drive back into the target machine and boot it. Once
it boots into DOS you change to the win98-cd directory and run the setup
from there. You can also copy all necessary drivers and even the
installation files of some (or all) of your intended application
programs to the target drive so it's all there and available when the
target system is up and running.

One last thing. Having a conversation and adding to a thread on Usenet
is not the same as doing the same over email.

The email convention, which I don't necessarily agree with but was
re-inforced or originated by Micro$haft, is to top-post your reply above
the conversation which is being dragged into it's entirety into the
reply.

The original Usenet convention was to strategically quote appropriate
passages of the message you're replying to and thus to add your new
material "in-line" into the reply. This makes for a cleaner flow and
less visual clutter and shorter messages that don't unnecessarily
include the previous post in it's entirety. So you will notice that I
only quoted what was necessary to respond to your original post and I'm
not needlessly repeating your entire post at the end of what I'm typing
here.