Windows 2000 box won't boot.

[ppppenguin]

Doesn't always work when you're dealing with odd hardware but it may be worth trying the older OS in VM. I use Virtualbox to run XP under Linux. Works perfectly with software that won't run under Linux (or W7 and W10 for that matter). I doubt it would allow virtualised W98 direct access to hardware. I have an old P2 machine with ISA slots and parallel ports for that.