• Virtualbox Install Windows 98
• Windows 98 Virtualbox Image

For a limited time only, files for installing MS-DOS 6.22 and Windows 3.1! You can download everything from my. I have some downloads for the following things:.

Jun 26, 2013 - Download Microsoft Windows 98 ISO for free. Windows 98 also allow several commercial machines to join on a LAN (Local Area Network) to share a single Internet connection. Extract.iso file of Windows and burn this into a bootable DVD or you can install windows, virtually using virtual box. All VHD files are intended for use with VirtualBox using the.vdi format. Unfortunately, running VPC2007 on later editions of Windows gives users BSODs. Windows 9x VMs will not be able to work 100% with Vbox due to lack of DOS drivers.

MS-DOS 6.22 Installer Floppy Images. Windows 3.1 Installer Floppy Images. Drivers:. CD-ROM Driver (Floppy Image). DOSIDLE to make DOS not consume 100% CPU(Floppy Image). WQGHLT to make Windows not consume 100% CPU (Floppy Image). SoundBlaster 16 Drivers (CD Image) Installation Notes: The version of Windows in this tarball is 3.1 - not Windows for Workgroups 3.11 (for that, download it separately from ).

I got ahold of this version of Windows 3.1 from a CD image instead of floppies, so I had to convert them to floppy images myself, and not all the files fit on all the disks (there should only be 6 disk images but there's 7 in this tarball). Windows 3.1 can still be installed from these images, it will just require more disk juggling.

When you get a 'Can't read file' error, you'll usually swap in the next numbered disk and hit enter. Sometimes you'll have to go to the previous disk instead. Update: If you want to download the components separately (DOS, Windows for Workgroups 3.11 and the drivers) you can find individual links on my. Another Update: (10/11/12) If you have issues with erratic mouse movement within Windows 3.1 on VirtualBox, some solutions are (from ):.

Start Windows in standard mode ( win /s). Disable hardware virtualization (in the System/Acceleration tab in the VM settings). Find a video driver that supports more than 16 colors (more info ). Update (5/16/16): I'm no longer hosting the bundled tarball that contains all the files + a VirtualBox preinstalled disk image to clean up disk space on my server. Instead, download all the components and install it yourself.

Links. guides for installing MS-DOS and Windows for Workgroups on old PCs. Tags:. Comments There are 180 comments on this page. Mahir256 posted on May 24, 2012 @ 23:23 UTC Okay, so the install of Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS 6.22 in a VM on QEMU went without any problems, except for one peculiar problem: WQGHLT does what it needs to do (frees CPU cycles), but DOSIDLE does not. Also, when putting it in my AUTOEXEC, the whole system either freezes on startup (more common), or it gives a 'divide error' (or similar), keeping one of my cores at 100%. The effect is particularly noticeable when going into Windows 3.1, equipped with WQGHLT, from the command prompt, and seeing the usage in Task Manager on the host system go down significantly.

Am I doing something wrong here? Resuni posted on July 20, 2012 @ 20:47 UTC Having a problem trying to put this on an old Dell Latitude. Doesn't matter if I'm trying to install Windows 3.1 or MS-DOS, if I try to boot from one of the floppies I get this message: Remove disks and other media. Press any key to restart. I'm fairly certain there isn't a problem with the floppy drive because I'm able to boot an MS-DOS startup disk I created with the Windows Explorer format tool (in Windows 7). I've tried booting this startup disk, then switched to an MS-DOS floppy, then ran SETUP from there but it then get a message: To install MS-DOS, insert Setup Disk 1 in drive A and press CTRL+ALT+DEL. This will restart your computer and begin the setup program.

Is there something I need to do to make these floppies bootable or something before I copy the image over to them? Vmlover posted on October 16, 2012 @ 12:52 UTC @Kirsle I installed it successfully on my Windows OS with VirtualBox 4.1.8 like, say, 2 months ago. FYI, I've used the command 'vboxmanage' to convert the VDI image provided in your tarball to a VHD image. I tested it on Microsoft Virtual PC 2007, but your Windows 3.1 (in 386 Enh. Mode) would not boot for a full 1.5 minutes after I typed 'WIN' in the DOS prompt.

It also gives you those funny errors like this: PROGMAN.EXE caused a General Protection Fault in XXXX:YYYY. Then, it makes you go back to MS-DOS. Jayne posted on December 12, 2012 @ 14:58 UTC Please Help. I really need Windows 3.1 for the sole purpose of using Paint. Without getting technical (coz I'd only confuse myself!!!) Paint on this version of windows was different from what it is today and that's the one I need!!). I've read comments etc on here, but I really haven't got a clue about computers. Please could someone be kind enough to explain to me how I could install this version of Windows on my PC, or maybe I could install it on another old PC I could get my hands to avoid losing data on my lovely new PC.

I would very much appreciate it so m if someone could please tell me step by step how I can install this using the links on this web page? Many many thanks in advance Jayne. Jayne posted on December 17, 2012 @ 14:06 UTC Please Help. I really need Windows 3.1 for the sole purpose of using Paint. Without getting technical (coz I'd only confuse myself!!!) Paint on this version of windows was different from what it is today and that's the one I need!!). I've read comments etc on here, but I really haven't got a clue about computers. Please could someone be kind enough to explain to me how I could install this version of Windows on my PC, or maybe I could install it on another old PC I could get my hands to avoid losing data on my lovely new PC.

I would very much appreciate it so m if someone could please tell me step by step how I can install this using the links on this web page? Many many thanks in advance Jayne.

Noah (@kirsle) posted on February 3, 2015 @ 19:18 UTC VirtualBox Guest Additions don't support any version of Windows older than Windows 2000/XP, so shared folders won't work. Other ideas:. If the networking works, try an FTP server you can connect to from within the virtual machine.

Create a you attach to the VM to copy files to/from, then detach it from the VM and mount it as a loopback device on the host OS to access files. For a host-to-guest only transfer, create an ISO image (some CD burners on Linux let you turn a folder into an ISO file instead of burning to disk; you'd select your folder, right-click 'burn to disk' and on the burn:/// URI the button to actually burn would pop up a window where one option is to make an ISO instead.

Power off the DOS VM, and attach its hard disk as a secondary drive on a newer VM (i.e. Windows XP or Linux) which does support guest additions. Note that two VMs can not be powered on at the same time if they have the same disk attached! Noah (@kirsle) posted on March 16, 2015 @ 20:09 UTC MS-DOS and Windows 3.1 were originally distributed as floppy disks, so no CD-based installation is supported. On I have an 'unpacked' Windows 3.11 install folder (it's a single zip file that contains all files from all Win3.11 floppy disks). You could turn that into an ISO file using any ISO creation tool. It will not be directly bootable, however.

Virtualbox Install Windows 98

So at a bare minimum you could:. Install MS-DOS from floppy disk images (no CD/ISO based install is supported for MS-DOS).

Or if you have a DOS boot floppy that has CD-ROM drivers built in, boot that and then mount an ISO containing all the unpacked MS-DOS floppy files. But basically, a floppy disk boot is going to be used one way or another. Install a CD-ROM driver into MS-DOS so that you can mount a CD as D: for example.

Create an ISO based on the unpacked Win3.11 install files and mount it as D:. Install Win3.11 from there, rather than the floppy on A:. The installation would happen more or less the same way except it won't ask you to insert the next floppy disk, as all the files it needs are already present on D:. BTW: I used a command similar to this to automagically mount and copy all files from the Win3.11 disk images into one folder (from a Linux system) to create the unpacked zip file. Osei posted on March 20, 2015 @ 23:07 UTC Hi, This is really great. I have been looking for windows 3.11 for a while.

Just to remember how far the computer world has come in a very short time. Its good you got it here for download. I will try it out. Another question I have is this. I am very new to virtualBox and want to give it a go.

If I have an image of my windows 8 box and I want to restore this on a virtual box, how do I go about this? I hope you will be able to enlighten me on this. MichaelD posted on March 27, 2015 @ 15:49 UTC I read a post asking why would anyone want to run this old OS. (I go back to 3.20) I run 6.22 because of a radio BBS system I helped develop back in the 80's. I still have it running on a old Dell Optiplex (slim line). I know its going to die one of these days, so this site has put the bug in me to get on a newer machine. I also run a similar vintage Optiplex tower with Win98, using it as a file storage machine.

These rigs are over 25 years old, so am treading on thin ice; especially since they run 24/7. So, I go from MSDOS to Server2008 plus Win7. Nocturne by chopin.

The fun part of 6.22 is scripting for extra memory. The BBS takes a lot of extra RAM to function. Anyone remember the old game of Eliza? My old 8088/8086 machine is used for EPROM burning and Amtor. (not that I burn any PROM's any more) What's my favorite OS? Vista, hands down, but this old stuff is a kick to fool with.

Tony Robichaud posted on March 31, 2015 @ 01:03 UTC I purchased my first computer in late 1978. MS-DOS did not exist yet but TRSDOS is what I learned to use. During the 1980's I wrote a complete set of accounting programs while being an Accounting Manager.

When IBM's PC came out I slowly switched to Windows 3.1 and MS-DOS and continues to write programs. Sure, the PCs today are better but not faster for the work I was doing. I recently fired up an old Windows 98 computer and my TRS-80 portable and both work very well. But I could not recoup an old IBM desktop running win 3.1 that had the two floppy sizes. I still have tons of 5-1/4 and 3-1/2 disks holding my old programs that worked very well during the 80's. Now I'm writing a similar set of programs that work with win 95 to win 8 and trying to get my previous stuff in text format.

The win 98 has a 3-1/2 disk drive and an MS-DOS prompt that I can use but will come back here it I need to download win 3.1 I'm glad I found this site while it's still around. The TRS-80 model 4 uses only 2 5-1/4 disks and there is no way to get my stuff transferred out of those TRSDOS disks into something like a text file I can read with more recent windows computers. Mark posted on March 31, 2015 @ 14:03 UTC Hello Kirsle Firstly thank you for this webpage and your downloads.

I am looking t install Dos 6.22 in a VM. I have downloaded and installed Virtualbox as per your suggestion. I have attempted to create VM and point it to the unzipped Dos 6.22 img files but when I do I get a message saying the File is not correct and cannot load the OS? Well that is not the exact wording but you get the idea. Am I doing something wrong? Others seem t have success so I think it must be me?

VB seems to be looking for an optical file and doesn't like the.img? Please help as I really need this to work. Thank you in advance.

Windows 98 Virtualbox Image

Trent posted on May 5, 2015 @ 04:08 UTC Has nobody noticed that the Windows 3.1 floppies are messed up, or am I the only one? The MS-DOS floppies are fine, but three files on the Windows floppies are corrupt (Windows Setup brings up an 'Unable to read file' error), and the files on the Windows floppies are arranged incorrectly across the disks. For example, Setup will ask for Disk 2, and you stick it in, and then later it will ask for Disk 2 again, at which point you actually need to stick in Disk 3, because for whatever reason some files that are supposed to be on Disk 2 are on Disk 3 instead. This happens across a couple other disks, too. Both of these issues happen in both Virtualbox and on a physical computer. Noah (@kirsle) posted on May 5, 2015 @ 18:23 UTC In the for this (these comments are shared between the blog and the /msdos page) I mentioned what the cause of this is. I got ahold of this version of Windows 3.1 from a CD image instead of floppies, so I had to convert them to floppy images myself, and not all the files fit on all the disks (there should only be 6 disk images but there's 7 in this tarball).

Windows 3.1 can still be installed from these images, it will just require more disk juggling. When you get a 'Can't read file' error, you'll usually swap in the next numbered disk and hit enter. Sometimes you'll have to go to the previous disk instead. I'll make a note of it on the /msdos page as well.

Michael posted on May 13, 2015 @ 10:00 UTC Hi Kirsle, I think it's really cool to get some the old 90's stuff running again on modern hardware.:D But so far I have no luck.:'( I've downloaded and installed the latest version VirtualBox on my Windows 7 x64 machine. Unfortunately it keeps crashing as soon as I start any virtual machine. I've also tried to create one from scratch. I get it to boot from the first MS-DOS 6.22 floppy image, but after a few seconds I get a memory error and it just aborts the VM.

It seems like a terribly unstable product.:-( Do you have any suggestions for me? Noah (@kirsle) posted on May 13, 2015 @ 17:22 UTC What are the specs on the Windows 7 machine? It should have enough RAM to allocate some to a virtual machine while still having 50% for the host OS. Iirc MS-DOS VMs default to only needing some low amount of memory (like 128MB or something? DOS/Windows 3.1 wasn't a very memory hungry system by today's standards), you can probably just use the defaults.

If your host OS has only 1GB of RAM altogether that could be an issue still, though. VirtualBox as a product is really stable; I haven't had any issues with it. If your computer is like 10 years, get a new one.;). Michael posted on May 18, 2015 @ 12:39 UTC Hi Kirsle, Thanks for your reply. If my computer was 10 years old, there would be no need for a VM since a computer from that era should be perfectly capable to run Windows 3.11 as its primary OS.:-) Actually my computer is quite new (Intel Core i7 with 8 GB RAM). So that shouldn't be a problem. I've also tried this on another machine (Intel Xeon with 8 GB RAM) and the result is the same.

VirtualBox just keeps crashing every time.:-( In the meantime I was able however to install Windows 3.11 using DosBox. That worked like a charm.:D Of course you don't get a snapshot mechanism with DosBox, that why I would prefer a VM. Max posted on June 17, 2015 @ 08:05 UTC If you like DOS and/or its software you can participate in a new international project. We are looking for 100 users and 10 developers (to start), from all over the world who want to use DOS and if we find them, it will be back (updated and free, of course).

The new software for this OS will be available, too. If you are interested – contact us: dosrenewal@gmail.com and let us know that you want to use either DOS or its software so we could add you to the users list. In addition, we invite programmers interested in working on the DOS kernel, drivers and software.