In this tutorial, we’ve put all our media images in our home directory, but you may wish to create dedicated CD and floppy directories to house them in. You can use another computer to image your discs and then copy them over, but if you have USB CD and floppy disk drives that play nicely with Raspberry Pi – not all do – then you can use dd in a Terminal window.ĭd bs=512 count=2880 if=/dev/sda of=win98boot.img It’s easiest to install Windows 98 from images, so we’ll want to copy both boot and install media. You’ll also need a boot floppy to run most versions of the installation disc. The Windows product key is the really important bit here as the software is useless without it: check for key stickers on your old laptop or desktop PCs. That means you’ll have to find a second-hand or unsold stock copy – eBay is a good bet for this – or rummage through your loft for old installation discs. Getting hold of Windows 98 is no longer easy as – unlike MS-DOS, or Windows 3.1 and 7 – Microsoft is no longer allowed to distribute Windows 95, 98, and Me through its Visual Studio Subscriptions program due to an intellectual property claim by Sun. To run Windows 98 software on Raspberry Pi you'll need: Be mindful of copyright when downloading image files, and only use proprietary software that you own and in accordance with the licence terms. DOSBox is an emulator and we use it with open-source FreeDOS code.

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