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<TITLE>Help on installing Windows '95 within Bochs (Old)</TITLE>
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Help on installing Windows '95 within Bochs (Old)
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<PRE>
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<B>NOTE: Please read message regarding licensing of software packages
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which you run within Bochs, and use of temporary files created to
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facilitate installation. <A HREF="3rdparty.license.html">3rd Party Software Licensing and Temporary Files</A></B>
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What you will need before you start:
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* Bootable floppy image with at least:
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COMMAND.COM
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FDISK.EXE
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FORMAT.COM
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Note: To create this, format a floppy on a real DOS machine. You need the
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system files, so do something like:
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C:\> format /u /s a:
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C:\> copy \dos\fdisk.exe a:
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C:\> copy \dos\format.com a:
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Then, copy the boot floppy to an file on a workstation that has a floppy
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disk drive. <A HREF="install.html#Creating a floppy image file">Creating a floppy image file</A>.
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* Windows '95 distribution:
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* Windows '95 Upgrade CDROM distribution.
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This won't work as of yet, since the SETUP program is unable to
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read the floppy drive to confirm you have a previous version of Windows.
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You'll need MTOOLS for this.
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* Windows '95 for PC's without Windows CDROM distribution.
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This should work fine. I only have the CDROM version above,
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so I can't complete the install, but I have the floppy version,
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and have enough info.
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You'll need MTOOLS for this.
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* Windows '95 Upgrade floppy distribution.
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This should work fine.
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Note: floppies 2 onward are in 1.68M format.
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* Windows '95 for PC's without Windows floppy distribution.
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This works fine. I use this one.
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* Floppy image of the first floppy from previous Windows distribution,
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if you're Win '95 is an upgrade version. This is for proof of
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license since you paid less for the upgrade.
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<A HREF="install.html#Creating a floppy image file">Creating a floppy image file</A>.
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* Compile Bochs and setup for the Win '95 environment.
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<A HREF="install.html#Compiling source code">Compiling source code</A>
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<A HREF="install.html#Setting up environment">Setting up environment before running</A>
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* Install the 'mtools' package on your workstation. This will
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allow you to copy files from your mounted CDROM to your hard
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disk image file, which you will create.
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<A HREF="mtools.html">Getting mtools</A>
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<HR WIDTH="100%">
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<H2>
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Creating and Preparing a Disk Image File for Windows '95 Installation.
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</H2>
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Create a blank hard disk image file. Bochs will use this file as
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though it's your PC's hard drive, and all software is stored within it,
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as it would be on a real hard drive. For this example, I chose
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to create a 112Meg image file. The 'diskc:' directive in your
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'.bochsrc' file should point to this file. <A HREF="install.html#Creating a hard disk image file">Creating a hard disk image file</A>
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(.bochsrc) diskc: file=../112M, cyl=900, heads=15, spt=17
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unix-> dd if=/dev/zero of=112M bs=512 count=229500
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Boot bochs with your 1.44Meg floppy image file. Set the 'floppya:' directive
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in your '.bocshrc' file to the path of the DOS boot floppy image you made.
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(.bochsrc) floppya: 1_44=../1.44
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unix-> bochs boot:a
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A:\> fdisk
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[answer defaults to all questions]
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[hit key to reboot, but Bochs will actually exit]
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Boot bochs again, format the C: drive, and make directories to
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hold the Win '95 distribution files and the contents of the
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first floppy of your previous Windows version if doing an upgrade.
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unix-> bochs boot:a
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A:\> format /u /s c:
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>Proceed with Format (Y/N)?< [y]
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A:\> mkdir c:\win95
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[quit out of bochs by typiing Ctrl-C in the window you started bochs from]
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Define an entry for your hard disk image file in your ~/.mtools file.
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Make sure all other 'c:' defs are commented out.
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(.mtoolsrc) drive c: file="<path>/112M" partition=1
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Test it out. You should see a directory of C:, which will probably
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have very little on it, and lots of free space:
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unix-> mdir c:
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</PRE>
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<HR WIDTH="100%">
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<H2>
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Installation from CD media
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</H2>
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Insert CDROM with Win'95 and mount it (the system automounter may do
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this for you automatically).
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<P>
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Go to the 'win95' subdirectory within the CD mount point and use
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mtools to copy the distribution files to your hard drive:
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unix-> cd <CD-mount-point>/win95
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unix-> mcopy * c:/win95
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</PRE>
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Now fire up bochs again, and start up the setup program:
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unix-> bochs boot:c
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C:\> cd win95
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C:\WIN95> setup /C /im /id /is /iq /in
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</PRE>
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Go to <A HREF="#Running Setup">Running Windows '95 Setup Program</A>.
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<HR WIDTH="100%">
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<H2>
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Installation from floppy media
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</H2>
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Unfortunately, the first disk of the Windows '95 floppy distribution is
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not the same format as the rest. Disk #1 is the standard 1.44M format.
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Disk #2 .. Disk #13 are 1.680M format, to save floppies. Since you can't
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change what kind of floppy you're reading from in mid-stream (at least
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not yet) in bochs, you'll have to transfer Disk #1 to a 1.680 format
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image file also. Then you'll be ready to go.
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<P>
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You'll need to copy all 13 of the floppies to image files. To do this
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it's likely you will need a Linux system. The problem is that you need
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a sytem that you can tell what the geometry of the floppy that you want
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to read is, when it's non-standard. On a Linux system, you can use the
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'setfdprm' command for this. The configuration file for setfdprm is
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'/etc/fdprm'. On my system, there already existed the following entry:
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# Non-standard disk formats:
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# size sec/t hds trk stre gap rate spec1 fmt_gap
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1680/1440 3360 21 2 80 0 0x0C 0x00 0xCF 0x6C # ?????
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</PRE>
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Without doing anything special, you can copy an image of the first floppy.
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<PRE>
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unix-> dd if=/dev/fd0 ibs=512 of=win95_d1
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</PRE>
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Now insert disk #2 in the drive. Tell Linux you have a non-standard disk in
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there now with:
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<PRE>
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unix-> setfdprm -p /dev/fd0 1680/1440
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</PRE>
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Make an image file of all the rest of the disks (2..13) by using 'dd'.
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<PRE>
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unix-> dd if=/dev/fd0 ibs=512 of=win95_d2
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...
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unix-> dd if=/dev/fd0 ibs=512 of=win95_d13
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</PRE>
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You should now have 13 image files, win95_d1 .. win95_d13. Before
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running setup, you have to get the contents of the first one, onto
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a 1.680 format image file, like the rest. To do that:
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<PRE>
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unix-> cp win95_d2 temp_1680
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# make entries in ~/.mtools
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(~/.mtools) drive a: file='path/win95_d1'
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(~/.mtools) drive b: file='path/temp_1680'
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# test out your mtools entries:
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unix-> mdir a:
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unix-> mdir b:
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# wipe out everything on b: to prepare to copy from a:
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unix-> minfo b:
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# a bunch of stats are displayed, along with the proper mformat command
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unix-> mformat -t 80 -h 2 -s 21 b:
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unix-> mdir b:
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# copy files from a: to b:
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unix-> mcopy a: b:
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</PRE>
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OK, now 'temp_1680' has the contents of disk #1, except its in the
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same format as the rest of them. You might as well over-write the
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old one:
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<PRE>
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unix-> cp temp_1680 win95_d1
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</PRE>
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At this point, you should have something like:
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<PRE>
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unix-> ls -l win95*
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d1
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d2
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d3
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d4
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d5
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d6
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d7
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d8
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d9
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d10
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d11
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d12
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-rw-r--r-- 1 user grp 1720320 Fri 13 17:21 win95_d13
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</PRE>
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You probably don't want to overwrite any of those disk images now,
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in case you have to re-run setup, so create one more working file,
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and edit your '.bochsrc' file to point to it:
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<PRE>
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unix-> cp win95_d1 floppya.1680
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(~/.bochsrc) floppya: 1_680=path/floppya.1680
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</PRE>
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Fire up bochs, and run the Windows '95 setup program:
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<PRE>
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unix-> bochs boot:c
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C:\> a:
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A:\> setup /C /im /id /is /iq /in
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</PRE>
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Now, any time the Windows '95 setup program wants a new disk,
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just go to a Unix window, and copy the corresponding disk image file to the
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working floppy image file. When it's done copying, type Return in the
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Bochs window.
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<PRE>
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unix-> cp win95_d[2..13] floppya.1680
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</PRE>
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Go to <A HREF="#Running Setup">Running Windows '95 Setup Program</A>.
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<HR WIDTH="100%">
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<A NAME="Running Setup"></A>
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<H2>
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Running Windows '95 Setup Program
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</H2>
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<PRE>
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(Sorry, I'll fill this out after I re-install Win'95 and write it all
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down this time. But for now...)
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Windows will take 30 to 60 minutes message
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[type Return]
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Windows '95 Setup Wizard (progress bar)
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License
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[type TAB, then Return to accept license]
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Choose Directory
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[type Return to accept default]
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Preparing Directory
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Setup Options
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[Down-Arrow 3 times to select Custom, then hit Return]
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When setup asks if you want Windows to find the devices, select manual.
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In each catagory, unselect everything with the space-bar. Then manually
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select only the hardware you need. You can accomplish this with the
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space bar, Tab key, and Down-Arrow key. From what I remember you need:
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standard AT/IDE drive
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standard floppy
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basic keyboard
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Default VGA Adapter card
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PS/2 Mouse
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no network adapter
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no sound adapter
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I forget if at the end, Windows bombs out when it reboots. If not, quit
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out of Bochs with a Ctrl-C. Then restart it. Windows completes the install
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then.
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</PRE>
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