Installing Win98 in a DosBox Instance

BDEE

BDEE

BDEE

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Anyone managed to complete this with success?

I have DosBox 0.74 and a genuine Windows 98 CD.

I can't get Windows to install in the DosBox instance.

I've tried by mounting the CD drive (it was worth a go....) and installing straight from it but of course that didn't work.

I created an .img file of the CD but now I can't get that to mount using the imgmount command - I get an error "Could not extract drive geomerty from image. Use parameter -size bps, spc,hpc,cyl to specify the gemoetry"

I am mounting C: as the folder where the image file is stored and then trying to img mount the img file to a: using the command:

imgmount a: c:\Win98.img

Any help would be appreciated, or if anyone knows of another way to get it running that would be cool.
 
I don't think dosbox has all the functionality to get Windows working, there are some other alternatives the better one being VirtualBox as mentioned above, QEMU works but is generally really slow and prone to crashing with Windows (there is some module that speeds it up a bit but its still only really useful for basic experimenting).

(Had Windows 98 booted up via QEMU on my old phone for lols - it only took about 9 minutes to load :S and about 5 minutes just to open internet explorer).
 
Yeah you can't use DOS to install Windows. It uses DOS but it doesn't use DOS as a basis for the OS (if that makes sense).

You need to use something like VMware / VirtualBox / etc. to install it.



M.
 
Got it installed on VirtualBox now but it seems to only give a viewable desktop area which is quite small in the middle of the screen and when I go full screen the viewable area stays the same and just gets surrounded by grey.

Will have a look at some of these other options too :)
 
Change the resolution on the Windows desktop? Have you installed the drivers afterwards? (depending what you're using - VMtools is VMwares drivers, etc.)



M.
 
ED209 said:
other option is VMware, use it at work to setup windows VMs
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Specifically VMWare Player is their free option, but these days it does everything that VMWare Workstation does.

VMWare also seems to have better out of the box support for Windows OSes, at least in the experience we have had at work.
 
BDEE said:
I am mounting C: as the folder where the image file is stored and then trying to img mount the img file to a: using the command:

imgmount a: c:\Win98.img
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You've missed out several parts of the command, which is why you've getting that error.

It should look like this

imgmount d c:\Win98.img -t cdrom -fs iso

If you'd read the readme that came with dosbox, you'd know how to use the imgmount command properly.
 
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