You can install w98 on c.img from w98 installation files copied on d.img.
bximage, (hd,flat,492MB,c.img) (bximage tells: 999cyl) = ~500MB
bximage, (hd,flat,1024MB,d.img) (bximage tells: 2080cyl) = ~1024MB
Get w98.ima image of installation floppy. If you have "real" fdd or "exe" image you can use "Winimage" trial to convert it to ".ima" format or maybe use some other way to obtain w98 floppy image.
Assume you can run "Winimage" trial on wine on your OS.
I assume you have all files (c.img,d.img,w98.ima) in the directory v:\t\ (you will have different paths under linux)
Contents
(1) preparing drive "c"
(2) preparing drive "d"
(3) backup
(4) prepare w98 installation files on "d" hdd
(4) installation
(1) preparing drive "c"
format c, and make it bootable with w98 (which will allow 1GB hdd as drive "d")
dosbox
imgmount 2 v:\t\c.img -fs none -size 512,63,16,999
boot v:\t\w98.ima
start without cd support
fdisk, create primary part. & make active, full-size of disk
quit dosbox, and start dosbox again
imgmount 2 v:\t\c.img -fs none -size 512,63,16,999
boot v:\t\w98.ima
start without cd support
format c: /s
quit dosbox,
Check if c hdd image is bootable:
start dosbox again
imgmount c v:\t\c.img
(if you have dosbox 0.70: imgmount c v:\t\c.img -size 512,63,16,999)
boot -l c
The W98 system should boot now!
(2) preparing drive "d"
Now prepare d hdd (~1GB large) for w98/other installation files:
dosbox
imgmount 2 v:\t\c.img -fs none -size 512,63,64,520
boot v:\t\w98.ima
start without cd support
fdisk (enable large disk support: Y), create primary part. & make active, full-size of disk
quit dosbox, and start dosbox again
imgmount 2 v:\t\c.img -fs none -size 512,63,64,520
boot v:\t\w98.ima
start without cd support
format c: /s
dir c:
(you should have ~1GB free space)
quit dosbox,
(3) backup
Now compress the two files: c.img and d.img in case you need these files clean in the future. The files compress to less then 1MB, because they almast entirely filled wih zeros.
(4) prepare w98 installation files on "d" hdd
Now, using winmage trial, copy W98 installation files starting from "root" into "d.img" (you can drag&drop all files at once using winimage trial).
You can also paste "w98lite45" into "d.img" if you intend to use it.
(4) installation
Now add the following lines into c:\Program files..\DosboxXXX\dosbox.conf,
(in [autoexec] section) or start dosbox and enter the lines:
imgmount 3 v:\t\d.img -fs none -size 512,63,64,520
imgmount c v:\t\c.img
(in dosbox 0.70: imgmount c v:\t\c.img -size 512,63,16,999)
in dosbox:
boot -l c
The W98 "dos" should prompt
dir d:
You should see w98 installation files on ~1GB drive d.
d:
w98lite45, or run w98 setup directly.
If you use w98lite45, when it asks for directories, give it directories on "c",
Now the problem is that under my OS (W7 x64 Ultimate) I get explorer crash after the whole installation.
This is disappointing, because I rally need W98 in dosbox for my mobile in order to run one english teaching application.
There are ready images on net, but I need my (Polish) installation and with IE6 neccessarily. I even bought w98 se (Polish) box at an auction in order to have a licence.
I look forward to your suggestions how to have W98SE Polish and IE6 under dosbox.