![]() Keep in mind that this is all happening virtually, and your actual Windows installation is not being touched.Īlso of note: When Setup asks you if you would like to create a startup disk, click no.Īfter Setup is complete, DOSBox will close. Now you can click on the DOSBox window and enjoy setting up Windows 95! You will be greeted with the familiar Windows 95 command prompt. Now you're ready to begin installing Windows 95!įirst, open DOSBox again, and run the following commands: Click the save icon to save your changes, and then you're done. Open your setup.img file using WinImage, then click and drag the folder containing all of your Windows 95 setup files, that you extracted from the numbered disk images, into your setup disk. Lastly, you need to copy the Windows 95 setup files into your setup disk image. After formatting both disk images, close DOSBox. When it asks you for a label, type anything you want, or press enter to leave it blank either is fine. This will bring you back to the Windows 95 command prompt.Įach time you run the format command, it will ask you to type the letter Y to confirm. Run the following commands in a new DOSBox window: Then, you need to format your hard disk images for use with Windows 95. Imgmount 2 setup.img -size 512,63,16,1015 -t hdd -fs noneįollow the same steps to partition your setup disk with fdisk. Next, you need to do the same thing for your setup disk: You will see a message telling you to shut down your computer for the changes to take effect this means to close DOSBox and re-open it. Lastly, press enter a third time to allow fdisk to use the entire disk image. Press the enter key to create a new DOS partition, then press enter again to set it as your primary partition. From here, you want to run the fdisk command. You will see the Windows 95 command prompt. To do this, open DOSBox, then run the following commands: Next, you need to partition your hard disk images. You can close DOSBox MEGABUILD6 now you won't be needing it again. Imgmake "C:\Users\your username\Desktop\Win95\setup.img" -t hd -size 500 -nofs Imgmake "C:\Users\your username\Desktop\Win95\win95.img" -t hd -size 500 -nofs To do this, open DOSBox MEGABUILD6 and run the following commands: The next step is to create your hard disk images. You've done a lot of work so far and you haven't even used DOSBox for anything yet, so at this point feel free to take a break and get yourself a juice box. Remember this folder because it will be important later. This will create a folder named win95 containing a number of. You should see a text box that says *\ in it change this to say win95 instead, then click OK. Click on Disk 1, then hold the shift key and click on Disk 21 this will select all of them. Then, open the 7-Zip File Manager and browse to the folder containing the numbered disk image files. Copy the Bootdisk.img file to your Win95 folder. ![]() img files Bootdisk.img and 21 numbered Disk*.img files. Next, you'll need to use 7-Zip or WinRAR to extract the files in the Windows 95 installation diskette archive. You don't need to install WinImage, though you will need to unzip it somewhere, like your desktop. Presumably you already have DOSBox 0.74 or newer installed, so you'll want to install DOSBox MEGABUILD6 alongside it, as well as the 7-Zip archiver. ![]() Next, you'll want to install all of the programs you downloaded if you haven't already. Save your changes and then close the configuration file. ![]() Change this so that it reads machine=vgaonly instead. To change it to VGA mode, find the section in your configuration file labelled, and underneath that, the variable machine=svga_s3. I like to do this, but SVGA mode is more modern. Optionally, you can change the graphics mode to VGA instead of SVGA. Underneath this, you want to find these two variables:Ĭhange them so that they say this instead: Open your DOSBox configuration file again, and find the section labelled. The next thing you want to do is to configure DOSBox so that it can run Windows 95 properly. You should see a blue text editor open in DOSBox. Now, try launching DOSBox and then run the command edit. Then, copy the EDIT.COM file into your Win95 folder. Mount A "C:\Users\your username\Desktop\Win95" Underneath this block of text, add the off # Lines in this section will be run at startup. To do this, open your DOSBox configuration file, then scroll to the very bottom. Next, you need to configure DOSBox to work within this folder. A copy of the Windows 95 installation diskette setįirst, you need to create an environment to work in within DOSBox.Ĭreate a new folder on your desktop and name it Win95.
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