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Win98SE: installing from .img files?

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Hi! In the past, I downloaded a lot of programs from REMOVED and most of them came in the form of .7z archives containing .img files. I've been able to mount them on a Win11/64 laptop under DOXBox-X. However, I want to install them on a Win98SE tower. I can decompress them to floppies but want a better approach. Is there one? For most DOS programs, I can simply copy the install from my Win11/64 laptop.

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Reply 3 of 5, by Harry Potter

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GoTec seems to be a hardware-based floppy drive emulator, but the system has a real floppy drive. I want a software-based system to temporarily replace the hardware with a disk image file. Again, I can copy over installations from DOSBox-X.

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Reply 4 of 5, by progman.exe

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All the files from the floppies in one directory on a pre-formatted HDD, run set up from there. I'm not sure this works from floppies, it does from CD.

But booting it? What about floppy emulation boot off a CDRW?

I have a PXE server on my LAN, and serving the boot floppy as an img from that would work...... in fact, a server-side switcheroo of floppy image files might mean the whole floppy install can be done off PXE and memdisk.

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