Larger partition sizes may be possible with 3rd party drivers but are not covered here. Or if you want to create a larger disk, you can create a custom type. This is an optional step. There are a few ways of doing so, but this guide assumes you have a ISO image. Now run through the install process. The actual steps will not be covered in this guide but are pretty self-explanatory and detailed guides on the Windows 98 install process can be found online such as youtube.
Now edit your win At the end of the file, in the [autoexec] section, add the following two lines:. Save the config file, and at the command-prompt of your host PC you can type the below command to continue with the next phase of the installation process.
After the installation is finished, you can start Windows 98 from the command-prompt of your host PC, with the following command:. Once Windows 98 is installed, here is some additional software you may want to install or update:. But only if the image files are specified before starting real DOS or Windows 9x.
In some cases, this is not possible, such as:. To enable NE emulation with the pcap back-end, add the following to your win It is effectively behind a NAT Network Address Translation gateway, meaning that you can communicate outbound, but no systems on the LAN can instantiate a new connection to it.
To enable NE emulation with the slirp back-end, add the following to your win If you enabled NE support in the DOSBox-X config file, Windows 98 should detect it during installation, and you should get a screen like the following. If Windows 98 did not detect the adapter during installation, or you enabled NE emulation after you did the installation.
It should find the emulated Novell NE adapter and install the drivers. In addition, this video adapter is supported out-of-the-box in Windows 98, simplifying the installation process.
However, these enhancements cannot be used in Windows 98 with the S3 video driver due to driver limitations. And no updated S3 Trio64 video driver is available for Windows 98 not even via installing DirectX 9c. Once installation is complete click 'Finish' and VirtualBox will launch automatically. Click 'New' at the top left hand corner of the window to start creating your virtual machine. Select the 'Name' field and type 'Windows 98 SE'. VirtualBox will automatically choose the correct OS type for you.
Click 'Next' to proceed. Do the same in the 'Hard Disk' section to create a virtual 2GB hard drive. Click 'Create' to confirm your VM settings. VirtualBox will now prompt you to choose a Hard Disk type. Select 'Next' to choose the default configuration. Click 'Create' to finalize your virtual hard disk settings. Although you have now created a virtual machine capable of running Windows 98, its virtual hard drive is currently blank. Once you've obtained one of these, re-launch virtual box and select your Windows 98 VM on the left hand side.
Click the 'Settings' icon at the top of the window. Select the 'Storage' tab. From here you can navigate to the ISO file for Windows Click 'OK' to confirm. Click 'Start' from the main VirtualBox window to activate your virtual machine. Press return to launch Windows 98 setup. Once the Windows 98 setup launches, press 'Enter' to begin installation.
Press 'Enter' once again to have Windows 98 partition your virtual hard drive for you. Use the 'Down' key to choose to use 'large disk support' and then press 'Enter' again to continue. Press 'Enter' once again to restart your VM. Once the VM reboots choose to start from a CD. Next, choose option 1 to enter the 'Setup' process. You will then see a screen showing the Hard Disk being formatted. Once this is completed, you need to press 'Enter' in order to initialize a routine system check.
After the system check is complete, a Windows 98 Setup Box will appear. From here you can start the process, which can take between 30 to 60 minutes. In this case it is likely your normal desktop PC or laptop. A guest is used to describe any operating system that exists virtually under the host.
In this case Windows 98 Second Edition is a guest on your host computer. I write this guide expecting that you will be using the latest Microsoft operating system at the time of writing, Windows However the basics will apply to Windows 7, 8 and 8. For Linux users VMware do develop a.
OK so hopefully you have successfully set up the virtual machine as per the instructions above, and you are sitting at the Microsoft Windows 98 Startup Menu prompt. So hopefully you have successfully installed the operating system files onto your virtual hard disk and the virtual machine is now showing a frankly beautiful Welcome to Windows 98 dialog box. If you follow this guide I am certain that you will end up with a high quality virtual machine ready for whatever you wish to throw at it.
Of course things may be slightly different depending on the version of install media you choose — if things are greatly different please let me know in the comments as it would be interesting to see how. So to avoid a lot of time loss I highly suggest following the following steps to quickly take a copy of the virtual hard disk file, so that in a case of emergency you can quickly roll back to this fresh copy.
Many people after achieving the above wonder how they can get their software such as old versions of Microsoft Office or their games into their virtual machine.
The easiest way is via. ISO files. You can see this guide which explains how to create. ISO files in moments using free software such as ImgBurn. ISO files you find online you should be able to mount into your virtual machine without too much issue. Take it from me, getting on-line with Windows 98 SE is pretty miserable.
The operating system includes Internet Explorer 5 by default which can just about load google. As you can imagine anything remotely complex causes all kinds of strange behaviour and rendering issues. I have had some success getting online with an old version of the K-Meleon web browser version 1. Keep in mind that most software made for the Windows 98 era which had on-line functionality probably no longer works.
If the software asks to reach out to the internet, try and get it to use your LAN connection sometimes referred to as a T1 connection which is how your Windows 98 SE virtual machine is connecting out to the internet. If you have followed the guide above your Windows 98 Second Edition virtual machine is probably runnning at a safe x pixels — which although perfect for the era, can appear tiny on p screens or barely visible on anything higher. Luckily the VMware SVGA II graphics adapter can support some truly bonkers resolutions for the era, with my virtual machine supporting a close p resolution.
I personally find x pixels to be a comfortable resolution for Windows 98 but many software items from the era begin to look odd at any resolution above x for widescreen or x for standard aspect ratio. Windows 98 was one of the last operating systems by Microsoft that was built on top of a DOS base layer. This meant that it has fantastic backwards compatiblity with software developed for earlier operating systems Windows 95, Windows 3. Simple DOS applications run OK but anything more demanding such as games can have performance, input or sound issues.
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