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Virtualbox Windows 98 Vhd Download Center 6 2 2017 0 Comments Installing Windows 98 on VirtualBox VirtualBox kept on crashing as soon as I got to the graphical part of the installation procedure of Windows 98 There are quite a few guides out there on how to install Windows 98se in VirtualBox Windows 95 in Virtualbox Also both VHD. The best way was to use VirtualBox. This software allows you to run a virtual computer on your laptop, so you don’t need to replace Windows 10 with Windows 95. I already had VirtualBox installed, so the next step was to obtain a copy of Windows 95. I found one on Kickass Torrents called Windows 95 PL ISO Floppy.
This means without a *.img file or other such 'filesystem in a file'.
The major advantage that dosbox has besides its configurable config files is that it mounts local filesystems and dos/win3.1 games just work. However, with windows 95 on, microsoft started making the filesystem interfaces and structures more complex to the point that every new drive needs to be fdisked in the os (after being mounted 'raw' in dosbox) before being usable. Consequentially if you want to use windows 95 with dosbox you have to let it fdisk a blank raw image and let it handle everything, which is also one of the reasons that win95 running in dosbox will not see local directories.
A windows 95/98 emulator that 'lied' to the OS about the underlying filesystem and allowed it and games to run on the local filesystem like dosbox can for windows 3.11 on FAT16 would open up the golden years of 1995-2001 to painless emulation (or at least, less-pain). Dosbox has other problems with img files like not supporting > 2gb or lack of support long filename support when it would be appropriate (used in some windows 3.1/95 games) - besides a hostile stance to running windows 95/98 games - so it's not the best option anyway.
Wine could do it, until wine dropped windows 95 and 98 support for portability on 64 bits, but wine is a adaptation of the whole API, not a emulator running the actual OS so to make the OS running on a emulator use the same trick would probably require other driver or IDE emulation trickery.
I suspect this is probably much easier for a standardized read only filesystem like ISO9660 and i think the dosbox-x fork does that by 'emulating' IDE cdrom controllers so windows sees what it expects to see when you mount a iso, but i'd really love the same ability for a full read-write drive like dosbox does for DOS fat16.
This is not so useless as it might appear (not using a file as a filesystem) because if you want to compress the filesystem, your compressor needs to understand the files it contains, which can enable deduplication of the files (also iso/bin have - useless - extra error correcting bytes every sector which can and do increase size by 10-30%).
In this article, we will examine how to install Microsoft Windows 98 step by step using Oracle VM VirtualBox on Windows PC/Laptop.
How to Setup Windows 98 in Oracle Software on Windows PC
The Windows 98 OS was released by Microsofton June 25, 1998, as an update to Windows 95.
It was not actually a full update for Windows 95. It was an update only for critical and critical updates, fixes and new devices. After it, Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) released. Although Win 98 is no longer used today, it is still in the memory of many people.
It is possible to use the Windows 98 system virtually on your physical computer. And therefore, you can only install and use Win 98 with the intention to get to the curiosity.
You can install Windows 98 with virtualization programs such as VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.
In our previous articles, we implemented a Windows 98 installation with other virtualization programs.
In this article, we will use the Oracle VM VBox virtualization program to perform the Windows 98 installation and finally install the guest additions.
NOTE: You can install Microsoft Windows 98 on Oracle VM VBox 6.0.10 by following the stages in this article.
How to Run Windows 98 in Virtual Machine
Before proceeding to the setup process, download Microsoft Windows 98 ISO file from the link below. Then follow the steps below to it on Windows 10.
Step 1
Run the Oracle VM VirtualBox program and click the New button to create a new virtual machine.
Step 2
Type the virtual pc name and select the operating system version. Then click the Next button to continue.
Step 3
Set the 1 GB (1024) RAM size for the Windows 98 machine and click on the Next button.
Step 4
To create a new virtual hard disk, select Create a virtual hard disk now, then click the Create button.
Step 5
Select the VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) option for the virtual HDD file type and click the Next button.
Step 6
In virtual machine installations with VirtualBox, we recommend configuring the virtual hard disk as Fixed Size. Because an HDD created with Fixed Size will increase the performance of the virtual machine.
Select the Fixed Size option for the virtual HDD and click Next.
Step 7
Also, storing the virtual hard disk in a different location will increase the performance of the virtual machine. In addition to this, running it on an external SSD Disk will increase the performance of it significantly.
Store the HDD device in a different location of virtual machine and click the Create button after specifying the 2 GB HDD size.
Step 8
Creating virtual hard disk…
Step 9
Now, to add the Windows 98 ISO image to the virtual machine, click the Right button / Settings on the virtual machine.
Step 10
Click Storage and then Empty from the left panel of the Win 98 settings window. Click on the CD / DVD symbol on the right-hand side and click Choose Virtual Optical Disk File.
Step 11
After adding the ISO image to the virtual machine, click the OK button to close the window.
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Step 12
Start the Windows 98 virtual machine…
Step 13
From the Windows 98 Startup menu, press Enter on the Boot from CD-ROM.
Step 14
Press the Enter key on the Start Windows 98 Setup from CD-ROM option.
Step 15
Press Enter = Continue on the installation screen.
Step 16
Select Configure unallocated disk space and press Enter.
Step 17
If you want to use a large disk, select Yes, enable large disk support and press Enter.
Step 18
Press Enter to restart the virtual machine.
Step 19
In the same way, continue with the second option.
Step 20
Again, continue with the first option.
Step 21
Wait while the Microsoft Windows 98 C: drive is formatted.
Step 22
To continue with the installation, press Enter as shown below.
Step 23
Click the Continue button to start the installation.
Step 24
In this stage, you can specify the location where you want to install it. Select C:WINDOWS and click Next.
Step 25
Select the Typical that is selected by default from the installation options and click the Next button to continue the installation.
Step 26
Select Install the most common componentsand click Next.
Step 27
Type your user name for the virtual machine and click Next.
Step 28
Select the country you live in and click on the Next button.
Step 29
Installation is ready to copy Win98 files. Click Next to continue.
Step 30
Copying your Win98 files to your computer…
Step 31
After copying the files, restart the virtual machine as follows.
Step 32
From the start menu, select Boot from Hard Diskand press Enter.
Step 33
Type your username and continue.
Step 34
To accept the license agreement, select I accept the Agreementand click Next.
Step 35
Windows 98 has saved all the information and click Finish to continue the next stage.
Step 36
Wait while MS Windows 98 does a hardware scan…
Step 37
Configure your date and time settings and click the Close button to save your settings.
Step 38
Updating system settings…
Step 39
To log in, type your username and click on the OK button.
Step 40
If you do not want to see the Welcome window again, uncheck the Show this screen each time Win 98 startsoption and close the window.
Step 41
Oracle VM VirtualBox Win 98 installation has been successfully completed! You can check the system information in the following window.
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Final Word
In this article, we have performed the Windows 98 installation using the Oracle VM VBox virtualization program on the Windows 10 operating system. Thanks for following us!
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