There is a company selling an installer for a semi-embedded/stripped down version of 98: https://www.litepc.com/shop/?product=Our_Products&pid=1 https://www.li

There is a company selling an installer for a semi-embedded/stripped down version of 98: https://www.litepc.com/shop/?product=Our_Products&pid=1 https://www.litepc.com/shop/?product=Our_Products&pid=1 They get 98 down to about 80mb. I am sure they had their reasons, maybe driver related, but I am sure there were better alternatives back in the early 2000s.