Sep 04, 2019 Virtual Disk Images offers a different selection to the previous two VDI sites. Instead of pre-built Linux distros, Virtual Disk Images gives you a selection of Windows VDIs. They’re not just any Windows VDIs, either. For example, you can download Windows 98, Windows. 98/ME Smoker is a Windows 98 and Windows ME tweaking utility that will help to reduce system bottlenecks, decrease boot times and increase system stability. In addition 98/ME Smoker has a new State-Of-The-Art internet optimizer that will tune any internet connection to perfection.
In this article, we will examine how to install Microsoft Windows 98 step by step using Oracle VM VirtualBox on Windows PC/Laptop.
How to Setup Windows 98 in Oracle Software on Windows PC
The Windows 98 OS was released by Microsofton June 25, 1998, as an update to Windows 95.
It was not actually a full update for Windows 95. It was an update only for critical and critical updates, fixes and new devices. After it, Windows 98 SE (Second Edition) released. Although Win 98 is no longer used today, it is still in the memory of many people.
It is possible to use the Windows 98 system virtually on your physical computer. And therefore, you can only install and use Win 98 with the intention to get to the curiosity.
You can install Windows 98 with virtualization programs such as VMware Workstation and VMware Fusion.
In our previous articles, we implemented a Windows 98 installation with other virtualization programs.
In this article, we will use the Oracle VM VBox virtualization program to perform the Windows 98 installation and finally install the guest additions.
NOTE: You can install Microsoft Windows 98 on Oracle VM VBox 6.0.10 by following the stages in this article.
How to Run Windows 98 in Virtual Machine
Before proceeding to the setup process, download Microsoft Windows 98 ISO file from the link below. Then follow the steps below to it on Windows 10.
Step 1
Run the Oracle VM VirtualBox program and click the New button to create a new virtual machine.
Step 2
Type the virtual pc name and select the operating system version. Then click the Next button to continue.
Step 3
Set the 1 GB (1024) RAM size for the Windows 98 machine and click on the Next button.
Step 4
To create a new virtual hard disk, select Create a virtual hard disk now, then click the Create button.
Step 5
Select the VDI (VirtualBox Disk Image) option for the virtual HDD file type and click the Next button.
Step 6
In virtual machine installations with VirtualBox, we recommend configuring the virtual hard disk as Fixed Size. Because an HDD created with Fixed Size will increase the performance of the virtual machine.
Select the Fixed Size option for the virtual HDD and click Next.
Step 7
Also, storing the virtual hard disk in a different location will increase the performance of the virtual machine. In addition to this, running it on an external SSD Disk will increase the performance of it significantly.
Store the HDD device in a different location of virtual machine and click the Create button after specifying the 2 GB HDD size.
Step 8
Creating virtual hard disk…
Step 9
Now, to add the Windows 98 ISO image to the virtual machine, click the Right button / Settings on the virtual machine.
Step 10
Click Storage and then Empty from the left panel of the Win 98 settings window. Click on the CD / DVD symbol on the right-hand side and click Choose Virtual Optical Disk File.
Step 11
After adding the ISO image to the virtual machine, click the OK button to close the window.
Step 12
Start the Windows 98 virtual machine…
Step 13
From the Windows 98 Startup menu, press Enter on the Boot from CD-ROM.
Step 14
Press the Enter key on the Start Windows 98 Setup from CD-ROM option.
Step 15
Press Enter = Continue on the installation screen.
Step 16
Select Configure unallocated disk space and press Enter.
Step 17
If you want to use a large disk, select Yes, enable large disk support and press Enter.
Step 18
Press Enter to restart the virtual machine.
Step 19
In the same way, continue with the second option.
Step 20
Again, continue with the first option.
Step 21
Wait while the Microsoft Windows 98 C: drive is formatted.
Step 22
To continue with the installation, press Enter as shown below.
Step 23
Click the Continue button to start the installation.
Step 24
In this stage, you can specify the location where you want to install it. Select C:WINDOWS and click Next.
Step 25
Select the Typical that is selected by default from the installation options and click the Next button to continue the installation.
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Step 26
Select Install the most common componentsand click Next.
Step 27
Type your user name for the virtual machine and click Next.
Step 28
Select the country you live in and click on the Next button.
Step 29
Installation is ready to copy Win98 files. Click Next to continue.
Step 30
Copying your Win98 files to your computer…
Step 31
After copying the files, restart the virtual machine as follows.
Step 32
From the start menu, select Boot from Hard Diskand press Enter.
Step 33
Type your username and continue.
Step 34
To accept the license agreement, select I accept the Agreementand click Next.
Step 35
Windows 98 has saved all the information and click Finish to continue the next stage.
Step 36
Wait while MS Windows 98 does a hardware scan…
Step 37
Configure your date and time settings and click the Close button to save your settings.
Step 38
Updating system settings…
Step 39
To log in, type your username and click on the OK button.
Step 40
If you do not want to see the Welcome window again, uncheck the Show this screen each time Win 98 startsoption and close the window.
Step 41
Oracle VM VirtualBox Win 98 installation has been successfully completed! You can check the system information in the following window.
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Final Word
In this article, we have performed the Windows 98 installation using the Oracle VM VBox virtualization program on the Windows 10 operating system. Thanks for following us!
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Download Windows 98 ISO for VirtualBox
You can download the Windows 98 ISO operating system used in this article by clicking the following button…
Windows Virtual PC only officially supports Windows XP, Windows Vista and Windows 7 as guest operating systems. Thankfully it has great compatibility and can run many operating systems that are not officially supported.
I recently needed to setup a Windows 98 virtual machine for my wife – who has some genealogy software that will not even run on Windows XP. To do this I created a new virtual machine and configured it with 64mb of RAM and a 16GB virtual hard disk.
I was then able to install Windows 98 with no real problems:
Some things to be aware of when doing this:
I originally created the virtual machine with 128mb of RAM – but that caused problems for the setup program. Setting the memory to 64mb allowed the installation to go through successfully – and I was able to increase the memory after the operating system installation.
I happen to have a bootable Windows 98 installation CD – but most Windows 98 installation CDs are not bootable. If you have one of these – you need to use a boot floppy – which means you will need these scripts for attaching floppy disks to virtual machines.
While I used a 16GB virtual hard disk – because that is all that I needed – I have tried this with disks up to 127GB in size and not seen any problems.
After installation both networking and sound work correctly – but the video is kind of “sucky” and you need to capture / release the mouse whenever you use the virtual machine. Luckily you can address both of these issues by installing older virtual machine additions in the virtual machine. Doing this will give you:
Better graphics
Integrated mouse functionality
Desktop resizing
But you will not get:
Clipboard integration
Time synchronization
Shared Folders
Printer / smart card sharing
But how do you do this? The trick is to extract the old virtual machine additions out of a previous product. In my case I decided to get the virtual machine additions out of Virtual Server 2005 R2. To do this what you will need to do is:
Download Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1
Download the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 Update
Put both files in a temporary working directory (I used C:work)
Rename the Virtual Server setup.exe to 1setup1.exe – This is needed to get around the Windows application compatibility check, which we do not care about as we will not be installing Virtual Server
Open a command prompt and change to your temporary working directory
Run: 1setup1.exe /c /t . This will extract the installation files out of the executable file
Next run: start /wait msiexec /a “Virtual Server 2005 Install.msi” TARGETDIR=”C:Workbits” /qn This will extract all of the files out of the setup package
Finally run: start /wait msiexec /p KB948515.msp /a “C:WorkbitsVirtual Server 2005 Install.msi” /qn This will apply the Virtual Server 2005 R2 SP1 update to the extracted files
Make a copy of the virtual machine additions ISO – which will be at C:WorkBitsProgram FilesMicrosoft Virtual ServerVirtual Machine AdditionsVMAdditions.iso
You can delete all the other files now – as that ISO file is the only one you need
At this stage you should start up your Windows 98 virtual machine and login. Then attach the VMAdditions.iso file to the virtual machine. The virtual machine additions installer should start automatically inside the virtual machine:
After this you will need to reboot the virtual machine.
With all this in place – some parting notes that I have are:
Do not connect this to a network! Seriously. Windows 98 is no longer supported by Microsoft – and security updates are not being released. Furthermore – there are no antivirus programs that are being actively maintained for Windows 98. So it is just a terrible idea to do.
If you do have to connect it to the network – here are some tips:
Configure the virtual machine to use Shared Networking (NAT) – that will at least protect it from active network based attacks
You can install Internet Explorer 6 from here – but please, please, please do not use the virtual machine for general purpose web browsing
The Windows Update link in Windows 98 is broken – but you can use Windows Update by manually going to http://windowsupdate.microsoft.com