![]() A Complete Guide to Install Windows 9. DOSBox. Looking at how OS had marvelled over these three decades starting from the 9. Win 3. 1, Win. 95 and Win. 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 Dos. Box, 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 wouldn't had the same experience that I did. So, you will need: Dos. Box. MS- DOS Boot Disc. Windows 9. 5 Installation Disc. Hard disk image that host your Win. To begin installing Windows 2000 Professional on your computer. If Windows automatically detects the CD, click Install Windows 2000.![]() Preparing the Files. This is what the fresh installation of DOSBox would contains. Download a copy of DOS boot disk - 6. C. IMG from http: //www. For unknown reason I could't boot when using the DOS 6. Just like any VM, I know that I will need hard disk image to host the Windows 9. OS. 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 FAT1. Don't be surprise with the capacity as the file is compressed and barely reaches 2. KB even for 1. GB. This is because they are empty disk image. For me personally, 1. GB is more than enough. Dos. Box 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 Win. Installation Disc (win. The version I chose was Windows 9. Having downloaded all of them, I then moved them to Dos. Box folder. Copy Windows. Installation Files to the Blank Hard Disk Image. Launch Dos. Box. Since the blank image I downloaded is already formatted as FAT1. I don't have to format it again. The DOSBox project on sourceforge.net has been upgraded. Unfortunately, the SVN moved to a new location because of that. The following just to verify that. Mount the empty hard disk image (hdd- 1gb. Note that I did not specify the drive name such as c or d since there I assume there is still no file system (FAT1. FAT3. 2, NTFS) on it. Instead, I use 2 which will mount it on native system hda. If you grab the pre- formatted hard disk image from https: //sites. For instance, I will enter 5. Windows 3x on DOSBox guide. Adapted from a guide by Dominus. Some generic instructions (under Windows) to install Windows 3x in DOSBox: Installing Windows. I'm downloading the 1. GB image. 2. 56. MB image: 5. MB image: 5. 12,6. MB image: 5. 12,6. GB image: 5. GB image: 5. After mounting the disk I then boot into MS- DOS 6. Verify that the disk is already formatted using fdisk. Restart Dos. Box and mount the image as drive c by typing: imgmount c hdd- 1gb. Extract the contents of the Windows 9. We will later copy the entire content of folder WIN9. Windows 9. 5 installation disk here. WIN9. 5copy D: \WIN9. Installing Windows 9. After that, start the installation by: c: cd WIN9. Scan. Disk from running) Follow the wizard and it will ask for a CD- Key at some point. I use the following: 1. OEM- 0. 00. 42. 26- 1. More CD- Key can be found here. After finishing the installation the system will restart, i. You'll have to relaunch it again. To boot from the hard disk image, simply type the following: imgmount 2 hdd- 1gb. Note: Some tutorials make some mistake in this step by typing the following: imgmount c hdd- 1gb. This will result in Invalid System Disk. The nostalgic boot screen of Windows 9. You can edit it by: To prevent graphical glitch, lower the CPU speed in the configuration file. FAQQ: I cannot enter backspace \ . It is mapped to right bracket . To do so, right click at the DOSBox shortcut found on your Desktop and add the switch in the Shortcut Tab. Click on the \ and the 'Add' button, then press your Backspace key. Delete the binding for .
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