Part one: Done! Part 2: The Windows 2000 upgrade I opted for a “minimal” installation since my plan was to replace the Windows 98 installation with Windows 2000 after the first boot. The installation itself was pretty easy and completed without any issues. As recommended by the DOSBox-X documentation, I set the emulation core to normal instead of dynamic_x86 to avoid crashes during the installation. Since the release I had was indeed a OEM version, I didn’t have to work with a boot floppy this time. While the retail versions of Windows 98 are not bootable by default, the CD-ROM for the OEM release can boot straight from the CD using the El Torito format. To make sure that the hard drive image is clean, I used the FORMAT utility shipped on the Windows 98 CD-ROM to initialize the virtual hard drive. To do so, I mounted the Windows 98 (Second Edition) ISO file in DOSBox-X. Luckily, I might be able to work around this issue by attempting to upgrade a Windows 98 installation to Windows 2000 instead. Sure, you can load additional drivers when starting the Windows 2000 setup by pressing the F6 button, but without a matching driver, this won’t work either. It looks like the IDE driver in Windows 2000 doesn’t support the virtual IDE interface created by DOSBox-X. Great, what an amazing start! I tried to reboot the virtual system a couple of times, but without success. Expecting a smooth journey, I cycled through the three floppy images.Īfter loading the files from the third floppy, the Windows 2000 installer checked the system hardware, tried to find the virtual hard drive - and failed. I was pretty surprised that the floppy-based installer started without any issues. Since I wasn’t able to boot the Windows 2000 ISO image, I used the boot floppy images shipped on the Windows 2000 disc to start the installer. I started by creating a virtual hard drive image with a size of 8GB using the IMGMAKE command and mounted both the virtual hard drive as well as the Windows 2000 ISO file. Since the recommended system specifications for Windows 2000 include 128 MB of RAM, I modified the configuration file accordingly. Clearly, I won’t be able to start it using the DOS runtime environment DOSBox-X provides, but using their full system emulation should be possible.Īs the base configuration for DOSBox-X, I used the configuration template for Windows 98 provided in the DOSBox-X wiki. While Windows 95, 98, and ME (also referred to as the “Windows 9x series”) are using MS-DOS as part of their kernel, Windows 2000 runs on the Windows NT platform. Don’t blame the developers for any issues - this is very experimental. At the time of writing this article, running Windows 2000 isn’t officially supported by the DOSBox-X project.
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