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VIRTUALBOX ADDITIONS WINDOWS 98 CD INSTALL
Some of the info screens during the install are rather interesting, promoting Window 95’s ‘high performance’: Possibly my 20GB attached virtual disk is not supported (too large), so reading around, it looks like a 2GB install disk is a supported size, so I was about to delete the 20GB disk and started again, but quitting the Scandisk before it completes with an error puts you back in the installer, and off it goes: Unfortunately at this point the install fails, and says the issue must be fixed before it will continue. Next, Windows 95 setup was telling me that my newly created and formatted disk was reporting an incorrect size, so started a Scandisk:Īfter this completed it still gave the same error, so I skipped this step: Then change to R: (the attached CD Drive) Seems I needed to partition my blank attached virtual disk first, so from the a: prompt, ran fdisk:Įntered ‘y’ for large disk support, and then selected option 1 for ‘Create a DOS partition’ and then ‘Create Primary DOS partition’. img from here, and attached it to the floppy drive in the VirtualBox config for this machine.Īfter booting to an a: prompt, attempted ‘format c:’ but got a ‘invalid drive specification’ error.
VIRTUALBOX ADDITIONS WINDOWS 98 CD DOWNLOAD
I download a Windows 95 boot disk floppy. If I did I probably don’t have them anymore. Windows 95 install CDs were apparently not bootable, and I don’t remember having boot floppies.
The steps in this blog are very useful for a guide. If you’ve come across any of my posts before you might remember I’ve installed all sorts of OSes under VirtualBox before, because, well why not? OS/2 and AROS probably the most interesting. I wondered (as you do, well, maybe not everyone does) what it would be like to install 95 again from scratch so created a new VM in VirtualBox and off I went. Looking through a stack of CDs and DVDs on the shelf on my desk, amongst many other things I still have install CDs for Windows 95 and Windows 98.
However for nostalgia’s sake, if there’s something you want to play around with to re-live just how awesome Windows 98 was (?), then it’s definitely doable in VirtualBox, but not a great experience. Given that VirtualBox does not have any supported/provided Guest Additions for WIndows 98 (or 95 for that matter), running under VirtualBox is incredibly slow and sluggish. An interesting IE feature that was discontinued from Vista onwards. I remember using this ‘active desktop’ feature in 98, where you could have web content pinned to your desktop. “Windows 98 supports new, cutting edge technologies” … I’m glad 98 made my computer “more entertaining”.
VIRTUALBOX ADDITIONS WINDOWS 98 CD SOFTWARE
Welcome to Windows 98 Setup: “the software that makes your computer more powerful, reliable, manageable, and entertaining”. I booted the VM from a floppy disk image (the same I downloaded for my 95 installation attempt, from here), partitioned and formatted the virtual disk, and then ran ‘setup’ from the CD: There’s a great post here that describes VM specific settings compatible for installing 98 – I went with 1GB RAM and a virtual 10GB disk and followed the other suggested settings.
Moving on then, next up, installing Windows 98.
VIRTUALBOX ADDITIONS WINDOWS 98 CD PRO
More likely the issue is related to VT-x virtualization (I can’t find the option to turn off VT-x support on my VirtualBox install), or other posts suggest this is most likely to do with host CPUs faster than 2.1GHz, and my Mac Pro has dual 2.8 Xeons. What on earth Windows 98 was doing back then initializing iOS devices is interesting, but beside the point 🙂 This error is described in this KB article but I’m not sure updating the BIOS in my Quantum hard disk is really applicable in this case. My attempt to install Windows 95 on Virtualbox on my Mac Pro didn’t turn out too well as by the time the installation completed it refused to boot with the error: "While initializing device IOS.
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