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1.46 GB Bochs image can't allocate space from DOS 6.3 boot disc.

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First post, by Floppy

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Hello folks i want to try to install Win98 i have a genuine Disc for that and although i found the tutorial hereGuide - Windows 95 on DOSBox 0.74

i had once almost close to installing it but then windows :something like this:
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http://img35.imageshack.us/img35/7144/error1pn.png

So now i want to make a bigger flat hdd space somewhat like 1.5 GB, where i can copy all the contents of Win98 disc and then try again, so i had made a flat hdd like 1.4 GB and used MS-DOS boot disk to give a partition using fdisk: which i did but it would show only 492 MB in size and i am puzzled and as i had followed the tutorial , which described a formula and only to give the amount of cylinders: which i did while making the flat HDD.
Please this : http://www.dosbox.com/wiki/IMGMOUNT#Hard_disk_images

Please see the screenshots : what it would look like:
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Hard disk images
The "-size" parameter (required to to create bootable hard disk images)

Didn't understand the "512,63,16,142" part?

All you really need to know is that the formula is always:

-size 512,63,16,X

Hope now it is clear as to what i am trying to achieve, but fdisk doesn't show that amount of space and i had made a 900 MB disk where fdisk showed only 235 MB.
So where did i go wrong here, i am not able to assign the correct size for the image hdd i created, help out please.

I want to try my hands at installing WIN ME and WIN 2000 too.

Reply 4 of 7, by Dominus

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You are persistent in not getting it, right. No Windows 9x support means that asking for help with win9x will get closed...

Windows 3.1x guide for DOSBox
60 seconds guide to DOSBox
DOSBox SVN snapshot for macOS (10.4-11.x ppc/intel 32/64bit) notarized for gatekeeper

Reply 6 of 7, by Floppy

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I can do that , but sometimes running Win98 in Virtual mode does tend to slow down the OS and it is not so snappy like the real one: and i believe running it in DOSBOX would certaily make it like a real deal, i think the developer should give a little serious thought and give a new name like DOSBOX pro where virualization is possible at least for running older version of WIn and Mac.