So I'm working on a Dosbox-x system... I already have tons of DOS apps &
games, old Apogee shooters and 'second reality' demo just rocking away perfectly... I chose to run it under a lite linux build, because its on an
arm processor - as opposed to a Dosbian install... which I like; Dosbian is just a boot-directly to DOS prompt build of Dosbox for the raspberry pi...
but I wanted to create individual .conf setups for each section of games... I want them to really dial in and play well on the light hardware.


Anyway, one of my last steps is getting some games that require Windows going... I've got Windows 98 almost installing perfectly, by loading the install CD as a CD-Rom image and then doing an actual install to C:\... but I don't have an actual DOS-hardware system, so I can't create a Windows 98 boot disk- nor do I have the actual boxed software with that disc available. I do have a valid Windows-98-key... but at any rate, I'm hoping that someone might:

Do you have a Windows 98 boot disc that you can ZIP up or image up for me?
It should only be 1.4MB so easy enough... hoping that someone might have what will finish off my DOS emulation project. ???

Thanks in advance, if you do: paulie420@gmail.com



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paulie420 wrote to All <=-

Do you have a Windows 98 boot disc that you can ZIP up or image
up for me? It should only be 1.4MB so easy enough... hoping that
someone might have what will finish off my DOS emulation project.

https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/98.html

or

https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-windows-boot-disk/98-se


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https://www.allbootdisks.com/download/98.html https://winworldpc.com/product/microsoft-windows-boot-disk/98-se

Well isn't that just what I needed! I didn't even think to hunt for options
on the web. Thanks...



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Re: Windows 98 boot disk need
By: paulie420 to All on Sun Aug 16 2020 08:40 pm

So I'm working on a Dosbox-x system... I already have tons of DOS apps & games, old Apogee shooters and 'second reality' demo just rocking away perfectly... I chose to run it under a lite linux build, because its on an arm processor - as opposed to a Dosbian install... which I like; Dosbian is just a boot-directly to DOS prompt build of Dosbox for the raspberry pi... but I wanted to create individual .conf setups for each section of games... I want them to really dial in and play well on the light hardware.

Anyway, one of my last steps is getting some games that require Windows going... I've got Windows 98 almost installing perfectly, by loading the install CD as a CD-Rom image and then doing an actual install to C:\... but I don't have an actual DOS-hardware system, so I can't create a Windows 98 boot disk- nor do I have the actual boxed software with that disc available. I do have a valid Windows-98-key... but at any rate, I'm hoping that someone might:

Do you have a Windows 98 boot disc that you can ZIP up or image up for me? It should only be 1.4MB so easy enough... hoping that someone might have what will finish off my DOS emulation project. ???

why do you even need a bootdisk when you can reboot using a shortcut with custom autoexec and config.sys?

anyways, i emailed you a link
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why do you even need a bootdisk when you can reboot using a shortcut
with custo m autoexec and config.sys?

anyways, i emailed you a link

Well, to boot into the windows98 installer... for clarification so you know what I mean I'll attach the link to the article I was following. In Magpi
#96, the Raspberry Pi Magazine...

It got fully installed. I have a Win98hd.img, hard drive with a perfect
install of Win98, I have Win98.img and a Win98Boot.img... however, even following the article to a tee I can't get past instructions #08 (Well I'm stuck AT #08...). I can't get dosbox to boot into Win98. :/

Getting there, but have to dive in with a clean mind tonight... if you do
take a look, any suggestions?



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Re: Re: Windows 98 boot disk
By: paulie420 to MRO on Tue Aug 18 2020 10:15 am

It got fully installed. I have a Win98hd.img, hard drive with a perfect install of Win98, I have Win98.img and a Win98Boot.img... however, even following the article to a tee I can't get past instructions #08 (Well I'm stuck AT #08...). I can't get dosbox to boot into Win98. :/

If you're using win98, why not just use virtualbox or quemu?
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Re: Re: Windows 98 boot disk
By: paulie420 to MRO on Tue Aug 18 2020 10:15 am

install of Win98, I have Win98.img and a Win98Boot.img... however, even following the article to a tee I can't get past instructions #08 (Well I'm stuck AT #08...). I can't get dosbox to boot into Win98. :/

Getting there, but have to dive in with a clean mind tonight... if you do take a look, any suggestions?

pretty sure dosbox wont run win98
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