VMware Workstation 3.2 Windows 95 Installation Guidelines Windows 95 Installation Guidelines You can install Windows 95 in a virtual machine using a standard Windows 95 boot floppy and CD-ROM. Note: Some Microsoft Windows 95 OEM disks included with new computers are customized for those computers and include device drivers and other utilities specific to the hardware system. Even if you can install this Windows 95 operating system on your actual computer, you may not be able to install it within a VMware Workstation virtual machine.

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You may need to purchase a new copy of Windows to install within a virtual machine. Note: Some Windows 95 distributions provide instructions that do not include the steps to FDISK and FORMAT a C: drive.

You must FDISK and FORMAT the VMware Workstation virtual hard disk drives before running Windows 95 setup. The instructions below are for the simplest case of one virtual IDE hard drive and one virtual IDE CD-ROM drive. If you have configured the virtual machine with more than one IDE hard drive, you should also FDISK and FORMAT these drives before installing Windows 95.

If you have configured the virtual machine with more than one virtual hard drive or more than one virtual CD-ROM, you may need to use different device letters than those in the instructions below. Before installing the operating system, be sure that you have already created a directory for the new virtual machine and configured it using the VMware Workstation New Virtual Machine Wizard (on Windows hosts) or Configuration Wizard (on Linux hosts). Installation Steps Installation Steps • Use the VMware Workstation Configuration Editor to verify the virtual machine's devices are set up as you expect before starting the installation. For example, if you would like the Windows 95 setup program to install a sound driver, be sure that sound is enabled in the virtual machine's configuration. VMware also recommends that you disable the screen saver on the host system before starting the installation process. • Insert the Windows 95 CD-ROM Setup Boot Disk in floppy drive A: and insert the Windows 95 CD in the CD-ROM drive. • Power on the virtual machine.

• After the virtual machine boots, if you are presented with a choice of CD-ROM drivers, select the first IDE driver option available (even if your computer has a SCSI CD-ROM drive). • Partition the virtual disk.

A: >FDISK Answer the questions. Note: If you create a primary partition that is smaller than the size of the hard disk, be sure the partition is marked active. • Reboot Windows 95. If the cursor is not already within the VMware Workstation window, click in the window, then press Ctrl-Alt-Ins on a Windows host or Ctrl-Alt-Del on a Linux host. If prompted on reboot to select a CD-ROM driver, select the first IDE CD-ROM driver from the list. • Format the C: drive.

A: >FORMAT C: /S • Start the Windows 95 installation. A: >D: WIN95 SETUP /IS Note: An intermittent problem can occur during Windows 95 installations in a virtual machine. Shortly after the Windows 95 Setup program is started, Scandisk runs to completion, and when the Windows 95 Setup program should start its graphical user interface, the virtual machine returns to an MS-DOS prompt. VMware recommends you reboot the virtual machine and rerun Windows 95 Setup. You do not need to FDISK or FORMAT the drive again. If this problem occurs reproducibly, please report it to VMware technical support.

• If the virtual machine's Ethernet adapter is enabled, you have to manually add an Ethernet driver because Windows 95 does not detect it during the Analyzing Computer phase (even if you selected the Network Adapter detection option). Do the following to enable networking: • Continue with the Windows 95 installation, until you get to the Windows 95 Setup Wizard/Setup Options screen.

Change the default setting from Typical to Custom and click Next to continue. • From the Network Configuration screen (which appears after the Analyzing Computer phase), click Add, select the Adapter component, select Advanced Micro Devices from the manufacturer window and AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter(PCI&ISA) from the network adapter window. • If you need TCP/IP networking, add it from the Network Configuration screen (Windows 95 Setup does not enable TCP/IP by default). If you don't do this, the first phase of the Windows 95 installation does not copy some of the files it will need later, and the entire installation fails.

Also be sure that the Microsoft NetBEUI protocol is installed. It may not be installed by default.

• Finish the Windows 95 installation. • VMware Workstation's virtual disks support DMA transfers for better performance.

The feature can be enabled after Windows 95 has been successfully installed on a virtual IDE disk. Follow these steps to enable the feature: • Right-click My Computer and select Properties.

Very Best Of Euphoric Dance Breakdown 2009 Megaupload Shut there. • From the System Properties dialog box, click the Device Manager tab. • Double-click the Disk Drives device category. • Double-click the GENERIC IDE DISK TYPE01 device.

• Click the Settings tab and select the DMA check box. VMware Tools VMware Tools Be sure to install VMware Tools in your guest operating system. For details, see.

Enabling Sound After Installing Windows 95 Enabling Sound After Installing Windows 95 If sound was disabled at the time you installed Windows 95, you can enabled it after the operating system has been installed. To set up the virtual machine to play sound, see. Enabling Networking After Installing Windows 95 Enabling Networking After Installing Windows 95 If networking was disabled at the time you installed Windows 95, you can enable it after the operating system has been installed. To set up networking for a virtual machine, follow the instructions below. Windows Host Windows Host • Shut down Windows 95 and power off the virtual machine. • From the VMware Workstation window, on the Settings menu, choose Configuration Editor and click Add. • Follow the instructions in the Add Hardware Wizard to add a virtual Ethernet adapter.

• Power on the virtual machine. • When Windows 95 reboots, it auto-detects an AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter (PCI&ISA) and prompts for the Windows 95 CD-ROM to install drivers. The default Ethernet adapter settings should work fine and do not need to be changed. • Double-click the Network icon in the Control Panel to view or change network settings. For example, you may want to add the TCP/IP protocol since Windows 95 does not install it by default.

Linux Host Linux Host • Shut down Windows 95 and power off the virtual machine. • From the main program window, on the Settings menu, choose Configuration Editor and open the Ethernet Adapters panel.

• Select a network connection type for the virtual machine and click the Install button. • Click OK to save the updated configuration, then power on the virtual machine. • When Windows 95 reboots, it auto-detects an AMD PCNET Family Ethernet Adapter (PCI&ISA) and prompts for the Windows 95 CD-ROM to install drivers. The default Ethernet adapter settings should work fine and do not need to be changed.

• Double-click the Network icon in the Control Panel to view or change network settings. For example, you may want to add the TCP/IP protocol since Windows 95 does not install it by default. Known Issues Known Issues After Windows 95 has been installed, you may find that networking is not working in the guest operating system. There are several things you should check. • Either remove your virtual machine's virtual USB adapter using the Configuration Editor ( Settings >Configuration Editor) or - if your release of Windows 95 includes USB support - be sure the USB drivers are installed. • Check the Windows 95 Device Manager to see if COM5 and COM6 devices are listed.

If they are, disable or remove them. • Be sure that NetBEUI was installed when you set up networking. • Be sure that Windows 95 Plug and Play properly detected the virtual Ethernet adapter. If it did not, you may need to use the Device Manager to remove the adapter, then reinstall it using the Add New Hardware control panel. On a Linux host with an XFree86 3.x X server, it is best not to run a screen saver in the guest operating system. Guest screen savers that demand a lot of processing power can cause the X server on the host to freeze. After Windows 95 has been installed, you may notice Unknown, COM5 and COM6 devices exist in the Windows Device Manager.

These devices do not actually exist and are not consuming IRQ or other resources. You may remove them using the Windows Device Manager if you like. Support for EMM386.EXE and other memory managers is currently limited. If you plan to boot initially using a customized non-standard MS-DOS or Windows 95 boot disk, be sure that EMM386.EXE (or other memory manager) is not being loaded. HIMEM.SYS and RAMDRIVE.SYS can be loaded and used without problems.

Installing Windows 95 Installing Windows 95/98 on a new empty hard disk. To install Windows on an new computer with an empty hard disk the following steps are required: • • • • • If Windows is to be installed onto a brand new hard disk which has never before been used, then hard disk must be before it can be used. Because a computer with an empty hard disk will not boot up (as there is no operating system on the hard disk), before you can begin to install Windows 95 or Windows 98 on a empty machine you will need to create a special boot floppy that can be used to start up the new computer. You must create this disk on another working Window 95 or Windows 98 computer. This disk can be created by the following four steps. • • • • 1 To start an MSDOS window Choose MS-DOS prompt from the start menu or choose ‘RUN’ from the start menu and then enter the filename ‘command’ as the program to be run.: A bootable floppy disk can created from the MS-DOS prompt by either of the following two commands: • Sys a: (This command will add system files to a floppy without destroying existing data) • Format a:/s (This command will wipe out any data already on the floppy disk.) The following MSDOS utility programs will be needed and must be copied onto the disk. As a minimum you should have at least: • Fdisk.exe • Format.com • Edit.com • Edit.dat • mscdex.exe.

These utility files can be usually be found in the c: windows command folder on the hard disk of any windows 95/98 computer. It is important to note however that you should only use the utility files from the same computer that you used to make up the boot disks. Utility files from other version of the same operating system may not work. These files can be coped with the MSDOS commands Copy c: windows command fdisk.exe a: *.* Copy c: windows command format.com a: *.* Copy c: windows command edit.com a: *.* Copy c: windows command edit.hlp a: *.* Copy c: windows command mscdex.exe a: *.* The boot disk will need a device driver file that matches your CD-ROM. These files can be different for each make and model of CD-ROM. However usually modern CD-ROMs can work with any ATAPI standard driver. If you did not get a device driver file with your CD-ROM you can usually get a compatible one from another machine.

The name of the CDROM device driver can vary. However they will always have the file extension.SYS. For example NECIDE.SYS or ATAPI_CD.SYS If this file was found on the root disk of a machine for example it could be copied to the floppy disk with the command Copy c: ATAPI_CD.SYS a: To enable the CD-ROM you must load the device driver for the CDROM and then run the Microsoft CD ROM extension patch ‘MSCDEX.EXE’. To do this create a text file called ‘Config.sys’ in the root folder of the floppy disk by typing in the command: Edit a: config.sys Enter a line to load the device driver in the editor.

This line will look like: Device=ATAPI_CD.SYS/D:CD01 The /D does not refer to disk d:, it is simply a label that will be used to link the device driver to the MSCDEX command. Generic Usb Mouse Driver Windows Xp. Save this file to disk and then reboot the machine with the floppy disk in the drive You must still however type in the following command to make the CD-ROM available after the machine starts up.

MSCDEX/D:CD01 Note that the label that you supply to the MSCDEX program must be the same as the label that you specified to the device driver in the config.sys file. Note that the above command ‘MSCDEX/D:CD01’ could be entered into a text file called ‘AUTOEXEC.BAT’ if you do this then the command will execute automatically each time the computer reboots. As part of the process of, a hard disk can be divided up into anything from one to four logical hard disk partitions. However even if a hard disk is to be used as a single logical hard disk it must still be partitioned before it can be used.

The act of partitioning creates the partition table. A hard disk cannot be used unless it contains a partition table. This partition table tells the BIOS how the disk should be divided up and where it should load the operating system from. The FDISK program can be used to partition a disk. After booting up the computer with your boot floppy disk run the fdisk program this can be done by typing in the command ‘FDISK’. If you have used Windows98 or a later version of Windows 95 to make up your boot disk you will be asked if you want to enable large disk support. If you answer ‘yes’ to this question then any partition that you create will be of type FAT32 if you answer ‘no’ then any partition that you create will be of type FAT16.

Each have different benefits under different circumstances. It is important to note that at this stage the partitions are marked as being of one or another, the file system is not actually laid out until the partition is formatted. Choose to create your partition by selection from the menu. If you wish to have your entire disk work as a single partition then you must ensure to make that disk a partition a primary DOS partition. You must also use the menu to ensure that the partition that you wish to boot form is marked as ' active'. Note however that IF you choose to use the whole hard disk as a single partition then the FDISK program will automatically mark that partition as active.

After quitting form the FDISK program it is important that you reboot the machine before continuing. When the machine restarts you must format the new hard disk partition before it can be used. This can be done by typing in the command ‘FORMAT c:/s’. Note that this task will take some time to complete.

The /S qualifier used in this command also puts the operating system onto the hard disk after it has been formatted. Windows 95 and 98 are best installed from the hard disk rather than from CD-ROM. This will save users having to search for the installation CDROM if they make minor changes to the configuration of the computer.

To do this insert the WINDOWS CD-ROM into the CDROM driver and then type in the following commands: MD WIN95 CD WIN95 COPY D: WIN95 *.* If you are using Windows 98 rather than Windows 95 simply substitute the numbers 98 for 95 in the above example. To begin installing Windows 95/98 run the setup program by typing in the command C: win95 setup for Windows 95 or C: win98 setup for Windows 98.

Windows will take over the installation form this point and prompt for all necessary inputs.