VOGONS View topic Guide. Old guide wrote You just cant do it while in DOSBoxs own DOS shell you need to boot up from pure DOS. Let me know if you want anything elaborated I kind of wrote this in a hurry since Ive got a ton of other work to get done today and should really be getting started 1. Get a boot disk. First off, get an MS DOS boot disk. Youll need a. img file. Bochs Install Windows Xp' title='Bochs Install Windows Xp' />I myself used 6. C. IMG from Bootdisk. I dont know exactly which versions of MS DOS will work, but I suppose 7 should be fine too. Ive read that you can cheat Windows into accepting a different version by using set ver 6. I cant confirm this myself since if you use 6. Make sure this file is in your DOSBox directory. Make a hard disk image. You can do this using the bximage program that comes with Bochs. HAL9. 00. 0s Megabuild contains a built in command for creating these from within DOSBox. Would be awesome if that could be merged with the main branch. Making an image using bximage is extremely straightforward. Theres a section on using it on the DOSBox wiki too. All you really need to remember when using bximage is the cylinder count, since everything else is standardized and shouldnt be changed. Fu3iCEGMrM/TyAcCkDtn2I/AAAAAAAAAMY/YUMLKv1_YSQ/s1600/16.png' alt='Bochs Install Windows Xp' title='Bochs Install Windows Xp' />In my example Im making a 4. MB image which has 8. PTfh03TuqQ/0.jpg' alt='Bochs Install Windows Xp' title='Bochs Install Windows Xp' />Only flat images are supported as of this time of editing. Sparse images will not be recognized. However, its possible to still compress flat files using your host OSs filesystem in Windows XP, this is the default behavior hence the blue filename. Copy this file lets call it c. DOSBox directory. Mount and format your new hard disk image. So now we have a hard disk image that were going to be installing Windows 9. Heres how you can install Windows XP or Linux on your iPhone or iPad. Complete details and video tutorial can be found here. DOS WindowsDOS Bochs x86DOS. The problem is it doesnt have a filesystem yet. This is where our boot disk first comes in. Start up DOSBox and type the following Code Select allimgmount 2 c. Note you may need to replace c. It should say Drive number 2 mounted as c. You might notice that were not giving it a drive letter basically, every drive needs to have a filesystem, which is a sort of file index, before it can be used properly. Without a filesystem like FAT3. NTFS, HFS, etc. a filesystem is just empty, unorganized space that the operating system can recognize but cant really do anything with, so until we fix this problem we cant mount it under C or any other drive letter yet. Modifying filesystems on a drive is called partitioning. Jquery Banner Rotator Rapidshare. Now type the following Code Select allboot 6. DOSBox will now boot up from the MS DOS boot disk. The first thing well do is use fdisk to create a filesystem. Run fdisk, choose option 1 Create DOS partition or Logical DOS Drive, then option 1 Create Primary DOS Partition. When asked if you want the new partition to comprise the whole hard disk, choose Y. A system restart will be prompted. Press enter DOSBox will quit. Now that we have our newly partitioned drive, we need to format it to effectively bring it to a completely empty and consistent state so that we can start putting files on it. To do so, we need to restart DOSBox and boot back into MS DOS. This time, however, well mount our drive differently Code Select allimgmount c c. At this point, DOSBox should say Drive C is mounted as c. If something is wrong, start this step over. Dont attempt to access the C drive from DOSBoxs own DOS shell or you might make it unreadable for pure DOS. Now boot into MS DOS by using the same command as last time Code Select allboot 6. When you enter the DOS prompt, format your new C drive by typing Code Select allformat c Note if at this point DOSBox is incorrectly reporting the size of your hard disk, that may be due to either a DOSBox bug or a problem with MS DOS. I dont know exactly which one, but Ive found that hard disk images with a size of over 5. MB or a cylinder count of over 1. Theyll work, but youll only be able to use a portion. Copy over setup files and start Windows 9. Al Stohlman Books Pdf here. At this point you should have your Windows 9. The version should not matter all that much Im using a Dutch OEM version myself, the same one I got with my first Pentium computer about 1. It doesnt really matter if its an image or not. The trick here is to copy the installation files over to your newly formatted hard disk and then perform the install from there. If you dont have an image already, consider making one anyway. Discs degrade over time and will become unreadable, especially if its already a home made copy to begin with. The easiest way to do this to my knowledge, anyway is to mount the c. Linux. Im on Mac OS X myself and can mount it by double clicking on the image file in the Finder. On Windows, Im not entirely sure if this is possible, but a program like Isobuster should work too. Dominus recommends using Disk. Explorer which is free. Make sure you close DOSBox before you move the files. All you need to do is move over the entire WIN9. CAB files from the CD to your mounted and now formatted image. It should be only about 3. MB in size. Unmount c. DOSBox. Well now start the installation. Mount c. img like we did the last time and boot 6. To start the installation, type the following Code Select allc cd win. Drivers Hp Psc 1350 Pour Windows 7. The is flag will prevent Scandisk from running, which is unnecessary. Note if the mouse is not working at this point, exit setup and run mouse. A drive. Windows 9. To have Windows start up automatically when starting DOSBox, you could edit your config to contain the following under autoexec Code Select allautoexecimgmount c c. In a little while, Windows 9. If you find that DOSBox isnt running anymore after a while, thats because Windows setup prompted a restart. Simply restart DOSBox and reboot into your c. Caveats and finishing up. Note that the best way to run Windows 9. DOSBox is with machinesvgas. Im actually not sure about corenormal being the best choice qbix mentioned that the dynamic core is probably as safe to use as the normal core, but its the oldest and most tested. In the past, coresimple was used to run Windows 9. The simple core emulates less instructions and causes visual glitches today. Its possible to get internet working using HAL9. NE2. 00. 0 passthrough patch, but it requires compiling your own version or using his Megabuild. Ill update this guide later when I get that working. On Mac OS X, make sure you dont set the screen bit depth to anything over 8 bit 2. Ive also found that its MUCH faster in full screen mode when using the opengl output system. Hardware detection should work just fine, so dont worry about DOSBox locking up. Thanks. to qbix, Dominus, h a l 9. IRC gang for helping me get this working. Visit dosbox irc. Post here if youre having trouble so I can add fixes to the guide. TODOGet internet working. Get CD ROM drive working is this possibleFind out how to easily move win. Windows host operating system.