Last comment first: Windows 98 is considered OBSOLETE by Microsoft, so the "update site" will not give you anything. Rumor is that there's another Microsoft site where you can download CRITICAL patches that have been released for Win98 and WinME; but I don't have a link handy.

To consider using Win2K, you'll need at least a 20GB hard drive - in one partition. It will take most of that for the installation. (Note that it has to write a lot of temp files to do the installation, so figure at least twice the installed size for the minimum free space you have to have to get it installed). At 20GB, with nothing else on the drive, you'll have a marginal machine, since Win2K won't use more than about 10% of "contiguous free space" for temp files, and it uses a lot of temp files when it's in operation. You can hack settings to let it use a higher percentage of free space, but it doesn't like it when you do.

A 30GB hard drive, FAT32 (or preferably NTSF format) is about the minimum I'd consider "useful" for Win2K. I just pulled the original 30GB drive out of SWMBO's Win2K machine and dropped in a 160GB - she's much happier now.

John