If your startup drive is an HPFS or Windows NT file system, you must create an MS-DOS boot partition before running Setup.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. 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 wouldnt had the same experience that I did. This is what the fresh installation of DOSBox would contains. 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. Dont be surprise with the capacity as the file is compressed and barely reaches 200 KB even for 1GB. 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 (win95en.iso) from. The version I chose was Windows 95 (4.00.950). Having downloaded all of them, I then moved them to DosBox folder. Mount the empty hard disk image (hdd-1gb.img) by typing imgmount 2 hdd-1gb.img -size 512,63,64,520 -fs none. Instead, I use 2 which will mount it on native system hda. In addition, it is also necessary to specify the exact disk geometry (i.e. If you grab the pre-formatted hard disk image from, simply replace the value matching the ones you downloaded. For instance, I will enter 512,63,64,520 since Im downloading the 1GB image. MB 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. We will later copy the entire content of folder WIN95 from Windows 95 installation disk here. 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. Youll 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. Instead of typing these every time you launch DosBox, you may add them in the AutoExec section in DosBox configuration file. A: Start DOSBox with the switch -startmapper. Click on the and the Add button, then press your Backspace key. I suggest to specify the fdisk part where you must type format c:; you also should add boot 622c.img again before step 3 (installing windows).
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