Seems I needed to partition my blank attached virtual disk first, so from the a: prompt, ran fdisk: img from here, and attached it to the floppy drive in the VirtualBox config for this machine.Īfter booting to an a: prompt, attempted ‘format c:’ but got a ‘invalid drive specification’ error. I download a Windows 95 boot disk floppy. If I did I probably don’t have them anymore. Windows 95 install CDs were apparently not bootable, and I don’t remember having boot floppies.
The steps in this blog are very useful for a guide. If you’ve come across any of my posts before you might remember I’ve installed all sorts of OSes under VirtualBox before, because, well why not? OS/2 and AROS probably the most interesting. I wondered (as you do, well, maybe not everyone does) what it would be like to install 95 again from scratch, so created a new VM in VirtualBox and off I went. Looking through a stack of CDs and DVDs on the shelf on my desk, amongst many other things, I still have install CDs for Windows 95 and Windows 98.
