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Earlier posts on installing Windows 3. This time the focus is on Windows 98, arguably the most popular version of Windows from a retro PC enthusiast prospective, particularly for gaming. Despite all the mention of gaming, VirtualBox is better suited for applications. The RTM virtualbox windows 98 download free brought together several bits and pieces that were made available for Windows 95 over time.

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Open up VirtualBox and select New. A Create Virtual Machine dialog box will appear allowing you to select which operating system it will be using for virtualbox windows 98 download free virtual machine VM. Winndows may either select the Windows version, or type Downlpad 98 and the drop-down selection will automatically change. After this, select Next.

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Now the option is regarding a hard disk for the VM. Inhard disk drives peaked at 15 GB capacity. For a desktop PC, capacities of 4. Attempting to create a virtual hard disk at 6. Another attempt at an free 6 GB and it was fine.

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COM is not provided vigtualbox booting from CD. Press Y then Enter to proceed to the main menu. FDISK alerts you at the bottom of the screen that no partitions are set active. Virtualbox windows 98 download free 2 then Enter to select Set active partition. Press 1 then Enter. The Status column updates to display the letter A to reflect this change. Run through the startup menus to load Windows 98 Setup again.

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Hardware detection follows, with yet another restart just as before. This time Setup will only prompt to confirm the date and time, but otherwise finishes off installation.

At this time, you may simply select Cancel. The network passwords here were only intended for accessing resources over your workgroup network, not to be confused with securing your user account. Windows begins to complete the Plug and Play process, by installing drivers for hardware components detected during Setup. Setup is now complete and directs you to the Windows desktop, displaying the Welcome to Windows 98 window.

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At the Windows desktop, right-click on My Computer and select Propertiesto bring up the System Properties dialog box. Select the Device Manager tab to see a list of system components. The Update Device Driver Wizard will appear. With the wizard appearing, it states that it will search for an updated driver. Select to display a list, and click Next.

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