While Windows 95 can be installed using the popular MS-DOS emulator DOSBox, Oracle’s VirtualBox offers an alternative, and for later versions (such as Windows 98) is essential. In order to follow this tutorial the following is required: • A fully installed version of Oracle VirtualBox. This tutorial uses VirtualBox Version 5.2.6 (for Windows hosts) with the VirtualBox 5.2.6 Oracle VM VirtualBox Extension Pack installed (both can be downloaded from ). • A copy of Windows 95 (and it’s Licence Key). This can either be an original CD or an ISO image.

This tutorial uses an ISO image of Windows 95 OSR 2.1. • A Windows 95 boot disk image (a diskette image can be downloaded from ). • SciTech Display Doctor Version 7 Beta Driver (an ISO image can be downloaded from ) To begin start VirtualBox and click the New icon.

Dec 21, 2017 - This is a copy of Microsoft's Windows 95 OSR2 edition (OEM Service Release 2). Included in the.ZIP file are two items: the.ISO file itself with.

• Enter a name • Select the type Microsoft Windows • Select the version Windows 95 • Click Next • Select a memory size of 64MB • Click Next • Choose Create a virtual hard disk now • Click Create • Choose VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) • Click Next • Choose Dynamically allocated • Click Next • Use the slider to select the size of the virtual drive It’s worth noting at this point that if the original version of Windows 95 is to be installed then the drive size should be kept to a maximum of 2GB. OSR 2 and later releases support the FAT32 file system and so larger sizes can be selected. For the purpose of this tutorial a size of 5GB was selected. • Click Create The VM is now created and is in a powered off state. With the powered off VM selected click the Settings icon. Chertezh pechi dlya bani iz kirpicha. • System > Acceleration tab – ensure that Enable VT-x/AMD-v and Enable Nested Paging are both Unchecked • Display > Screen tab – Video Memory: 32MB • Network > Adapter 1 tab – Attached to: select NAT from the drop down menu.

Expanded the Advanced menu below and ensure the Adapter Type is PCnet-PCI II (Am79C970A) • Click OK With the VM selected click the Start icon. The VM will now power up and ask for the location of a start-up disk.

This will be either a Windows 95 CD in a Host Drive or an ISO image. In the case of the latter navigate to the relevant ISO file by clicking on the folder icon to the right and mount the ISO image.

• Click Start The following error occurs. This is because the Windows 95 CD is not bootable. In order to boot the machine a boot disk is required. To mount the boot disk image select from the VirtualBox top menu: • Devices > Floppy Drives > Choose Disk Image Navigate to, and select, the Windows 95 boot disk image • Machine > Reset • Click Reset The machine now resets and boots with the following message. It should also detail the drive letter allocated to the CDROM Drive (if using a boot disk from the link at the beginning of this tutorial). If the drive letter needs to be changed (for example, from R: to D:) then this can be done by editing the autoexec.bat file of the boot disk. Optional – At the A: prompt: • Type edit autoexec.bat and press Enter • Change: • Press Alt, then F, then S • Press Alt, then F, then X From the VirtualBox top menu: • Machine > Reset • Click Reset For the purpose of this tutorial the CDROM Drive is drive D: At the A: prompt: • Type fdisk and press E nter If a hard disk size larger than 512MB had been selected then a message will appear regarding large disk support and enabling the FAT32 file system.