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First post, by dada

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Hi there. I'm trying to get Windows 95 to work on DOSBox. I remember once being able to do it a long time ago but right now I don't seem to have much luck.

I have a valid 200 MB FAT16 image (made with FDISK/FORMAT) as well as an MS-DOS boot disk and the CD (both in image form). Mounting the CD in regular DOSBox mode works fine but the install apparently requires "real" DOS.

So when I try to start up my boot disk, the CD apparently can't be detected:

Z:\>imgmount d "/Volumes/Prototype Stalker-C/Software/Windows 95.dmg" -t iso -fs iso
MSCDEX installed.
Drive D is mounted as /Volumes/Prototype Stalker-C/Software/Windows 95.dmg

Z:\>imgmount c "Images/c.img"
Drive C is mounted as Images/c.img

Z:\>boot "Images/WIN98SEC.IMG"
Opening image file: Images/WIN98SEC.IMG
Booting from drive A...
Starting Windows 98...



This driver is provided by Oak Technology, Inc..
OTI-91X ATAPI CD-ROM device driver, Rev D91XV352
(C)Copyright Oak Technology Inc. 1987-1997
Device Name : TOMATO
No drives found, aborting installation


Device driver not found: 'TOMATO'.
No valid CDROM device drivers selected
A:\>

So how does one use a CD image while in "real" DOS mode?

Some notes:
- I doubt the fact I'm using a DMG image makes a big difference. The setup works just fine (for a while, until it's supposed to stop working) when I run it in the standard DOSBox environment.
- I'm using the Windows 98 SE disk image from http://www.bootdisk.com/ (using the fourth CD driver instead of the first though)
- I'm quite positive I got it working before!

Reply 2 of 5, by dada

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DosFreak wrote:

You have to copy the 95 setup files to the hard drive image and install Windows 95 from the hard drive image.

Aha, so that's how it is! But how would I copy the files from the CD image to the drive? DOSBox doesn't have a recursive copy command, does it?

Reply 3 of 5, by h-a-l-9000

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I use norton commander.

1+1=10

Reply 4 of 5, by Dominus

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or use disk explorer linked to in the boot image guide Sample usage of a harddisc image in DOSBOX (as long as your OS is Windows at least)

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 5 of 5, by dada

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Just managed to do it with XXCOPY. Thanks a lot, everybody.