• How To Install Windows 98 Se

Looking at how OS had marvelled over these three decades starting from the 90s somehow makes me reminiscent the good old days of Win 3.1, Win95 and Win98. I certainly missed playing my first ever computer games such as Prince of Persia, Mario, and Doom.

1. How To Install Windows 95,98 in DosBox. Install Windows 98. Installing Windows 3.1 on DOSBox Tutorial - Duration.
2. First you must make a hdd image by bximage on bochs. All is writen on DOSBox documentation. Next tou must install dos 6.x on it. Mount drive image by imgmount and boot from dos 6.x bootable diskiette image. Run FDISK and make partition on hard drive. Now re-run dosbox. Mount image as c: and cd with win95 setup files as d.

This is demonstrating on runing windows 98 on dosbox not hard:-). Installing Windows 3.1 on DOSBox. How to install windows on android phone using dosbox turbo.

And so embark my journey to relive those memories again in the modern machine. To do that, I selected DosBox, which is an emulator that fully emulates those legacy machines. Like many others, I started off to search for related tutorials and what-not on Google, only to found that most of them are either too fragmented or requires me to piece up the tidbits.
To save time, I had decided to write up this tutorial just so you wouldn't had the same experience that I did.
So, you will need:

• MS-DOS Boot Disc
• Windows 95 Installation Disc
• Hard disk image that host your Win95 partition

How To Install Windows 98 Se

1. Preparing the Files

This is what the fresh installation of DOSBox would contains.

Download a copy of DOS boot disk - 622C.IMG from http://www.rloe.com/randytheracer/622c.zip. For unknown reason I could't boot when using the DOS 6.22 boot disk from http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/iso.html.
Just like any VM, I know that I will need hard disk image to host the Windows 95 OS. Many tutorials covers the steps to build your own hard disk image, requiring somewhat technical understanding. To avoid these complications, I simply choose a blank pre-formatted FAT16 .img from https://sites.google.com/site/dotalshoff/games/dosbox.
Don't be surprise with the capacity as the file is compressed and barely reaches 200 KB even for 1GB. This is because they are empty disk image. For me personally, 1GB is more than enough. DosBox requires the hard disk image to be flatten out in size instead of dynamically growing like many VM implementations nowadays. Upon extraction you will get the full blown size of the selected disk size.
Lastly, I then downloaded Win95 Installation Disc (win95_en.iso) from http://www.downloadfreeos.blogspot.tw/2013/06/windows-95.html. The version I chose was Windows 95 (4.00.950).
Having downloaded all of them, I then moved them to DosBox folder.

2. Copy Windows95 Installation Files to the Blank Hard Disk Image

Launch DosBox

Since the blank image I downloaded is already formatted as FAT16, I don't have to format it again. The following just to verify that.
Mount the empty hard disk image (hdd-1gb.img) by typing
imgmount 2 hdd-1gb.img -size 512,63,64,520 -fs none
Note that I did not specify the drive name such as c or d since there I assume there is still no file system (FAT16, FAT32, NTFS) on it. Instead, I use 2 which will mount it on native system hda. (0-1 will mount to fda and fdb (floppy disk a, b) and 2-3 will mount to hda and hdb).
In addition, it is also necessary to specify the exact disk geometry (i.e. sectors, cylinders) to let the file system utility that we'll use next (fdisk) know where the disk ends. If you grab the pre-formatted hard disk image from https://sites.google.com/site/dotalshoff/games/dosbox, simply replace the value matching the ones you downloaded. For instance, I will enter 512,63,64,520 since I'm downloading the 1GB image.
256MB image: 512,63,16,520
512MB image: 512,63,32,520
520MB image: 512,63,16,1023
1GB image: 512,63,64,520
2GB image: 512,63,64,1023

After mounting the disk I then boot into MS-DOS 6.22 by typing
boot 622c.img

Verify that the disk is already formatted using fdisk.


Restart DosBox and mount the image as drive c by typing:
imgmount c hdd-1gb.img
Extract the contents of the Windows 95 installation disc (win95_en.iso) using WinRAR.

After that mount it as drive d by typing:
mount d .win95_en
. implies current directory of DOSBox.
Make a new directory called WIN95 in C:/ which is your empty hard disk image. We will later copy the entire content of folder WIN95 from Windows 95 installation disk here.
c:
mkdir WIN95
copy D:WIN95*.*

3. Installing Windows 95

After that, start the installation by:
c:
cd WIN95
setup /is
(* /is flag prevent ScanDisk from running)

Follow the wizard and it will ask for a CD-Key at some point. I use the following:
12095-OEM-0004226-12233

* More CD-Key can be found here.
After finishing the installation the system will restart, i.e. DOSBox will quit. You'll have to relaunch it again.
To boot from the hard disk image, simply type the following:
imgmount 2 hdd-1gb.img -size 512,63,64,520 -fs none
boot -l c
Note: Some tutorials make some mistake in this step by typing the following:

imgmount c hdd-1gb.img
boot hdd-1gb.img

This will result in Invalid System Disk.

Post Setup

Instead of typing these every time you launch DosBox, you may add them in the [AutoExec] section in DosBox configuration file. You can edit it by:

To prevent graphical glitch, lower the CPU speed in the configuration file:

FAQ

Q: I cannot enter backspace . It is mapped to right bracket ].
A: Start DOSBox with the switch -startmapper. (Reference: http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/Keymapper). To do so, right click at the DOSBox shortcut found on your Desktop and add the switch in the Shortcut Tab.

The next time you start you will see the Keymapper. Click on the and the 'Add' button, then press your Backspace key. Delete the binding for [ and ] to avoid conflict.

Resource Links

DOSBox Hard Disk Image (preformatted as FAT16 and available in 256M, 512M, 1G and 2G image)
Windows 95 Installation Disk / Setup Files
Windows OS Product Codes and CD Keys

References

First off: This Guide is not supported by the creators of Dosbox. Dosbox’s main goal is to emulate enough of dos to play dos games, and not Win9x. Also This Guide might or might not work for you.
First off things you will need:
1: DOSBox Megabuild6 - For creating the HD
2: Win 98se (that’s what I’ve got) Installation CD
3: WinImage
4: ykhwong's latest build.
5: The Following 3dfx Driver - http://www.multiupload.com/ZSZQLN2C5M
6: a dos6 Boot disk
7: some computer knowledge
A ) HD creation and setup
1: Install Megabuild6. start it. Type the following command:

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Imgmake c.img -t hd_2gig -nofs -bat

Once it's finished you should have 2 files: c.img and c.bat
2: extract ykhwong's latest build to something like c:dosbox9x (to differentiate it with dosbox standard). Move c.img and the dos6 boot disk to this directory.
add the following (if you use the same names as I do) to dosbox.conf

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[glide]
glide=emu
[autoexec]
imgmount 0 dos6.ima -t floppy -fs none
imgmount 2 c.img -t hdd -fs none -size 512,63,64,1023
boot -l a


Will give you
3: Once dos started type in

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fdisk

. Then create a primary partition, then follow the prompts until it finish, it should restart dosbox. when you're bock in dosbox at the a> prompt, type in

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format c: s

4: Once it's finished. exit dosbox. Start Winimage and load c.img with it. It should ask what partition to connect, just accept the standard one offered. On the menubar use Image > create folder, to create a folder called something like win98. Go into the Directory by double clicking on it. then select on the menubar > Image > Inject a folder. Point it to your 98se (the one with all the cab files). Close Winimage.
B )Install Windows
1: In dosbox.conf remove the dos6 imgmount and change the following boot from a to c. Should look like this:

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imgmount 2 c.img -t hdd -fs none -size 512,63,64,1023
boot -l c

2: Start Dosbox, It might ask what to boot F1 for dos or F2 for disk 2, just press enter. It should load dos. use the following to start installing windows (if you used the same folder name as me)

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cd win98
setup

3: Enjoy setting up windows like on a real pc.
C )Installing the Driver
1: Start Winimage. Load c.img as before. Create a folder, something like drivers. Then goto the Folder, then choose Image from the Menubar > Inject, then point Winimage to the 3dfx driver you've downloaded. exit winimage
2: Start Dosbox. Wait for Windows to load. Goto the Directory where the 3dfx driver is. Run the program. Choose the same folder as where the driver is, this makes the following step easier.
3: Then goto the Control Panel: Start > Settings > Control Panel.Then go to System. Then to the Device Manager Tab. Click on the + alongside the sound, video and game controllers. Then select the Voodoo graphics. Then on Properties, then Driver Tab, Update Driver. Then select next till you get to the screen 'What do you want Windows to do?' there select the second option: 'Display a list....' Then on Have Disk. Then Browse, to where the driver is stored (step c2). It should install up to a point, then complain that there is a newer file that the installation wants to override, keep the file and complete the installation. Restart Windows. (Dosbox might hang here, Just close dosbox and start it again. That's all to it really