Sponsoring website: How to Set Up and Run The Bochs Emulator on a Windows PC Copyright©2012,2013 by Daniel B. Sedory Almost a decade ago, we explained how BOCHS could be used to learn Linux commands on a Windows PC. Now we'll show our readers how to use the Bochs Emulator to understand and debug Master Boot Records. Although the Bochs Emulator has binaries and source code for a number of different OS Platforms (such as Linux), the following describes how Microsoft® Windows users in particular can set up and run various image files of other operating systems under the Bochs Emulator. First, download the latest Windows 32-bit Bochs install file. This SourceForge page will automatically find it on a site near you: When last updated, the Bochs-2.6.2.exe download file is 4,691,702 bytes (4582 KiB; which can also be opened by the free to inspect its contents).
Bochs is easy on the Registry when installed, setting only an uninstall and file association for its '.bxrc' Configuration files; which then have a little 'box' icon next to them). The default install location: 'C: Program Files Bochs-2.6.2 ' has a number of subdirs, but it defaults to not installing 'dlxlinux,' so make sure you check the box for DLX part way through the install process, since we'll be using DLX to check your Bochs install. Its ' docs' folder includes HTML documentation, of which only parts of the ' User Guide' will likely be helpful.
You can read more about Bochs here:. After you install Bochs, click on the new ' Linux Demo in Bochs 2.6.2' icon (a 'shortcut' to run.bat in the dlxlinux subfolder under Bochs-2.6.2).
This will open both the ' Bochs for Windows - Console' and the ' Bochs for Windows - Display' in which you'll see the Bochs Emulator run through its own BIOS code similar to a real PC: If you pressed the F12 key soon enough (start right after clicking on the icon to be sure), you would see the following appear in the Bochs for Windows Display: Press F12 for boot menu. Select boot device: 1.
CD-Rom This can be useful if you include a Floppy diskette image file in the Configuration file. Of course, without it, or a CD-ROM image file referenced there, pressing a '1' or '3' will simply result in an error message before Bochs moves on to booting from the hard disk. After Bochs starts booting from the DLX disk image file, you'll see the following scroll by on the display: LILO boot: Loading linux. Uncompressing Linux.done.
Now booting the kernel Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) Calibrating delay loop. Ok - 3.97 BogoMIPS Memory: 31168k/32768k available (612k kernel code, 384k reserved, 604k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.034 for Linux 1.3.77 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.12 for Linux NET3.033. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Checking 386/387 coupling. Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction. Linux version 1.3.89 (root@merlin) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Mon Apr 15 19:46:15 ME T DST 1996 Serial driver version 4.11a with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected - driver installed. Loop: registered device at major 7 hda: Generic 1234, 10MB w/256kB Cache, LBA, CHS=306/4/17 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.44M Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is a 8272A Partition check: hda: hda1 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Apr 28 10:21:38 init1: version 2.4 booting EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended Mounting remote file systems. INET: syslogd Apr 28 10:21:40 init1: Entering runlevel: 4 Welcome to DLX V1.0 (C) 1995-96 Erich Boehm (C) 1995 Hannes Boehm dlx login: Quick Guide to Using Bochs (beginning with ' dlx linux'): Note: It's perfectly normal for the 'dlxlinux' emulation screen to go completely 'blank' (all black) after a short time. Unless you keep typing data into it. (Pressing the 'SHIFT' key will cause it to reappear; as will many other keys, but SHIFT is very safe, since it doesn't enter anything on the command line.) Holding down the 'SHIFT' key and pressing the 'PageUp' key, will allow you to scroll back up towards the beginning of the screen output. For each press of the PageUp key, it will scroll about 1/2 (one half) the number of lines in a full screen. This is a very common linux/Unix keyboard function.
The 'SHIFT + PageDown' key combination will scroll back down towards the current command line. Under dlx you only need to ENTER the word ' root' at the command line to login as the 'root' user. Once you have logged in, ENTER the following commands to see the common linux executables included with 'DLX': ls /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin Note: You'll also find a halt command in /etc that isn't even started (it's only one line: #!/bin/sh). DLX does not include any man (manual) or info pages. You can try adding ' -help' after a command, but if you're not already familiar with UNIX/Linux commands, we'd recommend also searching online help pages to understand what each of these might be used for. Please note; especially, if this is your first experience with linux, that DLX is an old and very limited linux distribution, and its version 1.3.89 kernel (which is all that linux truly is from an operating system perspective) is very out-of-date, having come from a time when changes were being made to it almost daily.
Kernel version 1.0.0 had only been released in March 1994 and 1.2.0 in March 1995, but by June 1996, versions of 2.0.x were already being released. Three rather important kernel releases were: 2.2.0 in January 1999, 2.4.0 in January 2001 and 2.6.0 in December 2003.
So, you should obtain a more recent linux distribution, which along with the linux kernel, includes a great deal of GNU ( 'Gnu's Not Unix') software - free Unix-like utilities and applications. A Linux Live! CD or DVD can be run without installation, to see why having and learning how to use a Linux distribution can be very useful; even for a Windows PC tech. In summary, DLX is nothing like a recent Linux CD/DVD or full-blown GUI distribution that comes with more pre-installed applications than Windows ever will.
If you wish to truly experience what Linux is like today, we'd recommend obtaining or downloading the.ISO image file of a recent such as the Ubuntu distribution which allows you to try running it directly from the CD; many online help forums exist for Ubuntu. ( Note: Do not install it to your PC without first understanding everything about creating and using a dual-boot PC. A very useful alternative for many today would be to first install either Oracle's GNU licensed (only a 95 MiB D/L for Windows) or VMWare's free program, and install Ubuntu or any other Linux distro directly from its.ISO file as a virtual computerrunning under your Windows OS.) A very nice and fairly recent alternative to DLX for running Linux under Bochs would be the 'Virtio i486' version of (v 16.1 at this time). Although this is still a rather small.ISO image file (only 14 MiB; but note: You'll need a program like, WinRAR or WinZip to extract the.ISO file from inside the.GZ archive), it runs Linux kernel version 2.6.34.7. Please read our page on.
If you'd like learn more about Linux commands using DLX or Tom's RTBT and how create and install more elaborate Linux OS distributions under Bochs, such as Ubuntu, then read our older. For the complete User Guide to Bochs, this file link should open in your PC's web browser: ( if you installed Bochs as instructed to do so above), provided you first copy this web page to your local PC. Below is a quick guide (with notes) to the most commonly used Bochs Windows Display buttons (they're all explained in detail here: ). BUTTON DESCRIPTION USER Allows user to enter a keystroke (or combination of keystrokes) directly into the Bochs Emulator without the Host OS intercepting them. For example, you can send the 'CRTL + ALT + DEL' combination to the emulated OS and the Host OS will do nothing. Only one keystroke line is allowed in the Configuration File, but you can edit it in the pop-up box before pressing the 'OK' button (or even change the stored line using the CONFIG button; see below, in its Misc section). Copy Places all the text characters from current view of the Bochs Emulator screen into your Windows Clipboard.
Paste Emulates keystroke entries for whatever characters are in the Clipboard; do not use this button on a Command Line without first being sure of what's in the Clipboard! Snapshot Saves the same text data as the 'Copy' button does, but to a file of your choice and location (default name: 'snapshot.txt'); this can be very useful. CONFIG This stops the running simulation and puts it into 'Runtime Configuration' mode. When you use this, do not click the 'Quit' button under the 'Simulation' section, unless you want to power-off the Bochs emulator! Instead, use the ' Continue' button. (See Bochs User guide for more.) Reset Does the same as a PC: Powers-off the Bochs Emulator and then turns it back ON again! Don't use this unless you're running a rather simple OS emulation (like DLX or DOS); unless your OS is 'hung'.
SUSPEND Supposed to save the simulation in its current state, but functionality is limited (should not be used with hard disk image files). Read section.
Power Will immediately power off the emulated computer. So do not use this until after you have tried entering the halt or the poweroff commands under a more complex Linux OS (or shutting down a Windows OS correctly). ( Note: We've been unable to get any of the switches for 'shutdown' to function under this 'dlx' version; it only prints the same help message! And if you ENTER: shutdown now (not even listed), you'll still be disappointed, since that simply results in the message: 'shutdown: cannot get into single user mode' (So you must use the 'Power button' to turn off Bochs when running the Demo 'dlx' linux version.) Using Bochs to Learn Exactly How a PC Boots Up For most of you who read our pages here at The Starman's Realm, the debugger program that comes with the Bochs Windows install package will be more important than simply running another OS in its Emulator! After you've become somewhat familiar with Bochs, our next page will show you how to set up, start and run debug sessions to learn how a computer's or other IPLs (Initial Program Loaders) function step by step! Revised: March 28, 2012 (28.03.12). Updated: May 2, 2012 ; May 10, 2012 ; May 19, 2012 ; July 21, 2013.
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Hello I have Windows 98 (Second Edition) and I can not manage to install it on dosbox with 3dfx video card as I saw this windows 98 se (Second Edition) installed on dosbox, but I do not know how so, there are many on the forum a topic to install windows 95 but for the first version of Windows 95, it does not work for Windows 98 SE (Second Edition). I have 2 cd windows 98 se (Second Edition) a bootable cd and a non-bootable, and bootable floppy windows 98 se. I have Windows Vista Home Premium 32-bit SP2 and Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit to run on dosbox pc cpu Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 2.4 Ghz no o / c and 2 GB of RAM. My question is how to install Windows 98 (Second Edition) on dosbox with 3dfx video card?
I already know to make images of hard disk formatted in fat16 with Bochs and mounted with imgmount on dosbox, I can make up to 2 GB per image file. Newbie Posts: 19 Joined: 2010-8-16 @ 11:11. How are we supposed to explain a complicated (and UNSUPPORTED, as a number of people already have pointed out) matter when you're not even capable of writing english posts without using machine translation, which produces incomprehensible results?
Unlesss you're 70 years old I'm sure you had english classes in school, so go ahead and at least try making the effort. Basically, it comes down to this: yes, DOSBox (obviously) runs Windows 98. No, it's not 'officially' supported, so there are no 'official' infos like written tutorials. Plus, 'not supported' means you're on your own when encountering problems, unless you're very lucky. You'll have to find a kind soul to explain, if you need step-by-step instructions. Btw: the '3dfx voodoo chip emulation' thread you've linked to doesn't explcitly mention Win 98 SE IIRC. The YouTube video doesn't, either.
Maybe SE simply doesn't work at all? Oldbie Posts: 1170 Joined: 2007-2-02 @ 15:07 Location: Retroland.
Windows 98 Second Edition is unsupported under any version of DOSBox. Read this forum thread on how Windows 95 and the original release of Windows 98 can be installed in this forum thread: In the forum thread that I linked to, robertmo clearly explained how one of the two operating systems can be installed successfully. But be warned, Windows 95 and Windows 98 installations will need to be somehow tweaked to get it to work properly; otherwise, you're out of luck. If you want to use Windows 98 Second Edition, I suggest that you use Bochs, VMware Player, Qemu or VirtualPC. Member Posts: 150 Joined: 2009-1-03 @ 22:24. Use yhkwongs o.74 build. It has the inbuilt 3dfx emulation in it.
Sad thing is that its the early version of Kekkos 3dfx, so it is really slow. Also 98 keeps giving me illegal operations so it doesnt work very well.
If u can (CAN; Doesnt mean it will work!) You have to install 3dfx drivers. I used grtvgr from the f1rs cd (Put them into the HD image ) So thats download yhkwongs build (i'll attach it ) Install drivers get a glide game and enjoy. Attachments yhkwong dosbox build w/3dfx Direct3D (3.9 MiB) Downloaded 295 times Newbie Posts: 6 Joined: 2010-12-06 @ 07:04.
Sponsoring website: How to Set Up and Run The Bochs Emulator on a Windows PC Copyright©2012,2013 by Daniel B. Sedory Almost a decade ago, we explained how BOCHS could be used to learn Linux commands on a Windows PC. Now we'll show our readers how to use the Bochs Emulator to understand and debug Master Boot Records. Although the Bochs Emulator has binaries and source code for a number of different OS Platforms (such as Linux), the following describes how Microsoft® Windows users in particular can set up and run various image files of other operating systems under the Bochs Emulator. First, download the latest Windows 32-bit Bochs install file.
This SourceForge page will automatically find it on a site near you: When last updated, the Bochs-2.6.2.exe download file is 4,691,702 bytes (4582 KiB; which can also be opened by the free to inspect its contents). Bochs is easy on the Registry when installed, setting only an uninstall and file association for its '.bxrc' Configuration files; which then have a little 'box' icon next to them). The default install location: 'C: Program Files Bochs-2.6.2 ' has a number of subdirs, but it defaults to not installing 'dlxlinux,' so make sure you check the box for DLX part way through the install process, since we'll be using DLX to check your Bochs install. Its ' docs' folder includes HTML documentation, of which only parts of the ' User Guide' will likely be helpful. You can read more about Bochs here:. After you install Bochs, click on the new ' Linux Demo in Bochs 2.6.2' icon (a 'shortcut' to run.bat in the dlxlinux subfolder under Bochs-2.6.2).
This will open both the ' Bochs for Windows - Console' and the ' Bochs for Windows - Display' in which you'll see the Bochs Emulator run through its own BIOS code similar to a real PC: If you pressed the F12 key soon enough (start right after clicking on the icon to be sure), you would see the following appear in the Bochs for Windows Display: Press F12 for boot menu. Select boot device: 1. CD-Rom This can be useful if you include a Floppy diskette image file in the Configuration file. Of course, without it, or a CD-ROM image file referenced there, pressing a '1' or '3' will simply result in an error message before Bochs moves on to booting from the hard disk. After Bochs starts booting from the DLX disk image file, you'll see the following scroll by on the display: LILO boot: Loading linux.
Uncompressing Linux.done. Now booting the kernel Console: 16 point font, 400 scans Console: colour VGA+ 80x25, 1 virtual console (max 63) Calibrating delay loop. Ok - 3.97 BogoMIPS Memory: 31168k/32768k available (612k kernel code, 384k reserved, 604k data) Swansea University Computer Society NET3.034 for Linux 1.3.77 NET3: Unix domain sockets 0.12 for Linux NET3.033. Swansea University Computer Society TCP/IP for NET3.034 IP Protocols: ICMP, UDP, TCP Checking 386/387 coupling.
Ok, fpu using exception 16 error reporting. Checking 'hlt' instruction.
Linux version 1.3.89 (root@merlin) (gcc version 2.7.2) #1 Mon Apr 15 19:46:15 ME T DST 1996 Serial driver version 4.11a with no serial options enabled tty00 at 0x03f8 (irq = 4) is a 16550A PS/2 auxiliary pointing device detected - driver installed. Loop: registered device at major 7 hda: Generic 1234, 10MB w/256kB Cache, LBA, CHS=306/4/17 ide0 at 0x1f0-0x1f7,0x3f6 on irq 14 Floppy drive(s): fd0 is 1.44M, fd1 is 1.44M Started kswapd v 1.4.2.2 FDC 0 is a 8272A Partition check: hda: hda1 VFS: Mounted root (ext2 filesystem) readonly.
Apr 28 10:21:38 init1: version 2.4 booting EXT2-fs warning: mounting unchecked fs, running e2fsck is recommended Mounting remote file systems. INET: syslogd Apr 28 10:21:40 init1: Entering runlevel: 4 Welcome to DLX V1.0 (C) 1995-96 Erich Boehm (C) 1995 Hannes Boehm dlx login: Quick Guide to Using Bochs (beginning with ' dlx linux'): Note: It's perfectly normal for the 'dlxlinux' emulation screen to go completely 'blank' (all black) after a short time. Unless you keep typing data into it. (Pressing the 'SHIFT' key will cause it to reappear; as will many other keys, but SHIFT is very safe, since it doesn't enter anything on the command line.) Holding down the 'SHIFT' key and pressing the 'PageUp' key, will allow you to scroll back up towards the beginning of the screen output. For each press of the PageUp key, it will scroll about 1/2 (one half) the number of lines in a full screen.
This is a very common linux/Unix keyboard function. The 'SHIFT + PageDown' key combination will scroll back down towards the current command line. Under dlx you only need to ENTER the word ' root' at the command line to login as the 'root' user. Once you have logged in, ENTER the following commands to see the common linux executables included with 'DLX': ls /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin Note: You'll also find a halt command in /etc that isn't even started (it's only one line: #!/bin/sh). DLX does not include any man (manual) or info pages. You can try adding ' -help' after a command, but if you're not already familiar with UNIX/Linux commands, we'd recommend also searching online help pages to understand what each of these might be used for. Please note; especially, if this is your first experience with linux, that DLX is an old and very limited linux distribution, and its version 1.3.89 kernel (which is all that linux truly is from an operating system perspective) is very out-of-date, having come from a time when changes were being made to it almost daily.
Kernel version 1.0.0 had only been released in March 1994 and 1.2.0 in March 1995, but by June 1996, versions of 2.0.x were already being released. Three rather important kernel releases were: 2.2.0 in January 1999, 2.4.0 in January 2001 and 2.6.0 in December 2003. So, you should obtain a more recent linux distribution, which along with the linux kernel, includes a great deal of GNU ( 'Gnu's Not Unix') software - free Unix-like utilities and applications. A Linux Live! CD or DVD can be run without installation, to see why having and learning how to use a Linux distribution can be very useful; even for a Windows PC tech. In summary, DLX is nothing like a recent Linux CD/DVD or full-blown GUI distribution that comes with more pre-installed applications than Windows ever will. If you wish to truly experience what Linux is like today, we'd recommend obtaining or downloading the.ISO image file of a recent such as the Ubuntu distribution which allows you to try running it directly from the CD; many online help forums exist for Ubuntu.
Empire earth tpb. ( Note: Do not install it to your PC without first understanding everything about creating and using a dual-boot PC. A very useful alternative for many today would be to first install either Oracle's GNU licensed (only a 95 MiB D/L for Windows) or VMWare's free program, and install Ubuntu or any other Linux distro directly from its.ISO file as a virtual computerrunning under your Windows OS.) A very nice and fairly recent alternative to DLX for running Linux under Bochs would be the 'Virtio i486' version of (v 16.1 at this time). Although this is still a rather small.ISO image file (only 14 MiB; but note: You'll need a program like, WinRAR or WinZip to extract the.ISO file from inside the.GZ archive), it runs Linux kernel version 2.6.34.7.
Please read our page on. If you'd like learn more about Linux commands using DLX or Tom's RTBT and how create and install more elaborate Linux OS distributions under Bochs, such as Ubuntu, then read our older. For the complete User Guide to Bochs, this file link should open in your PC's web browser: ( if you installed Bochs as instructed to do so above), provided you first copy this web page to your local PC. Below is a quick guide (with notes) to the most commonly used Bochs Windows Display buttons (they're all explained in detail here: ).
BUTTON DESCRIPTION USER Allows user to enter a keystroke (or combination of keystrokes) directly into the Bochs Emulator without the Host OS intercepting them. For example, you can send the 'CRTL + ALT + DEL' combination to the emulated OS and the Host OS will do nothing. Only one keystroke line is allowed in the Configuration File, but you can edit it in the pop-up box before pressing the 'OK' button (or even change the stored line using the CONFIG button; see below, in its Misc section). Copy Places all the text characters from current view of the Bochs Emulator screen into your Windows Clipboard. Paste Emulates keystroke entries for whatever characters are in the Clipboard; do not use this button on a Command Line without first being sure of what's in the Clipboard! Snapshot Saves the same text data as the 'Copy' button does, but to a file of your choice and location (default name: 'snapshot.txt'); this can be very useful. CONFIG This stops the running simulation and puts it into 'Runtime Configuration' mode.
When you use this, do not click the 'Quit' button under the 'Simulation' section, unless you want to power-off the Bochs emulator! Instead, use the ' Continue' button. (See Bochs User guide for more.) Reset Does the same as a PC: Powers-off the Bochs Emulator and then turns it back ON again! Don't use this unless you're running a rather simple OS emulation (like DLX or DOS); unless your OS is 'hung'. SUSPEND Supposed to save the simulation in its current state, but functionality is limited (should not be used with hard disk image files).
Read section. Power Will immediately power off the emulated computer. So do not use this until after you have tried entering the halt or the poweroff commands under a more complex Linux OS (or shutting down a Windows OS correctly). ( Note: We've been unable to get any of the switches for 'shutdown' to function under this 'dlx' version; it only prints the same help message! And if you ENTER: shutdown now (not even listed), you'll still be disappointed, since that simply results in the message: 'shutdown: cannot get into single user mode' (So you must use the 'Power button' to turn off Bochs when running the Demo 'dlx' linux version.) Using Bochs to Learn Exactly How a PC Boots Up For most of you who read our pages here at The Starman's Realm, the debugger program that comes with the Bochs Windows install package will be more important than simply running another OS in its Emulator! After you've become somewhat familiar with Bochs, our next page will show you how to set up, start and run debug sessions to learn how a computer's or other IPLs (Initial Program Loaders) function step by step! Revised: March 28, 2012 (28.03.12).
Updated: May 2, 2012 ; May 10, 2012 ; May 19, 2012 ; July 21, 2013. Last Update: July 28, 2013. You can write to me using this:. (It opens in a new window.).
Virtual pc is free for people with a genuine copy of windows, as for VM ware its nice but you can only use your perphials on one machine for example a wireless dongle couldnt be used on both machines, but if thats not a problem then go aheadVMware does let you use Wireless through both the host aswell as the vm-machine last I bothered with it. Was maybe the end of last year last I used it, was just using some older dos apps that are no longer working in Win7, but I was also using network access on both host and vm-machine (downloading on both host and vm-machine), CD drives and USB drives do need to be mounted and unmounted though between host and VM-Machine but those cases that's just a safe way to do things, it would be a bad idea to have 2 machines trying to change data on one drive at the same time without risk of corruption Last edited by Zorlon; 11th-March-2012 at 21:25.
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VMware does let you use Wireless through both the host aswell as the vm-machine last I bothered with it.
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