You can do this using the bximage program that comes with Bochs. (Would be awesome if that could be merged with the main branch.) HAL9000’s Megabuild contains a built in command for creating these from within DOSBox. Making an image using bximage is extremely straightforward.
There’s a section on using it on the DOSBox wiki too.Īll you really need to remember when using bximage is the cylinder count, since everything else is standardized and shouldn’t be changed. In my example I’m making a 400 MB image which has 812 cylinders. Only flat images are supported (as of this time of editing). Mount and format your new hard disk image However, it’s possible to still compress flat files using your host OS’s filesystem in Windows XP, this is the default behavior (hence the blue filename).Ĭopy this file (let’s call it c.img) to your DOSBox directory.ģ. So now we have a hard disk image that we’re going to be installing Windows 95 on. The problem is it doesn’t have a filesystem yet. This is where our boot disk first comes in. Note: if at this point DOSBox is incorrectly reporting the size of your hard disk, that may be due to either a DOSBox bug or a problem with MS-DOS. I don’t know exactly which one, but I’ve found that hard disk images with a size of over 512 MB (or a cylinder count of over 1000?) tend to be problematic. They’ll work, but you’ll only be able to use a portion.Ĥ. The version should not matter all that much I’m using a Dutch OEM version myself, the same one I got with my first Pentium computer about 17 years ago.Ĭopy over setup files and start Windows 95 installationĪt this point you should have your Windows 95 disc ready. It doesn’t really matter if it’s an image or not.
The trick here is to copy the installation files over to your newly formatted hard disk and then perform the install from there. #Install windows 98 on dosbox turbo install# Discs degrade over time and will become unreadable, especially if it’s already a home made copy to begin with.) (If you don’t have an image already, consider making one anyway. The easiest way to do this (to my knowledge, anyway) is to mount the c.img file in your operating system. qbix mentioned that mount -o loop dos622.img /mnt should do it on Linux.
I’m on Mac OS X myself and can mount it by double clicking on the image file in the Finder. #Install windows 98 on dosbox turbo mac os x# On Windows, I’m not entirely sure if this is possible, but a program like Isobuster should work too. Dominus recommends using DiskExplorer which is free.
Make sure you close DOSBox before you move the files.Īll you need to do is move over the entire WIN95 directory (the one containing all the CAB files) from the CD to your mounted and now formatted image. To start the installation, type the following: Mount c.img like we did the last time and boot 622c.img. In a little while, Windows 95 will be installed. If you find that DOSBox isn’t running anymore after a while, that’s because Windows setup prompted a restart. Simply restart DOSBox and reboot into your c.img (if you haven’t already added the above lines to your ). Note that the best way to run Windows 95 under DOSBox is with machine=svga_s3, core=normal and cputype=pentium_slow. I’m actually not sure about core=normal being the best choice (qbix mentioned that the dynamic core is probably as safe to use as the normal core), but it’s the oldest and most tested. #Install windows 98 on dosbox turbo install#.#Install windows 98 on dosbox turbo mac os x#.