Note: An intermittent problem can occur during Windows 95 installations in a virtual machine.
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If prompted on reboot to select a CD-ROM driver, select the first IDE CD-ROM driver from the list. 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. Note: If you create a primary partition that is smaller than the size of the hard disk, be sure the partition is marked active. Insert the Windows 95 CD-ROM Setup Boot Disk in floppy drive A: and insert the Windows 95 CD in the CD-ROM drive.Īfter 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).
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VMware also recommends that you disable the screen saver on the host system before starting the installation process.
#Windows 95 osr2 emulator mac install#
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. Use the VMware Workstation Configuration Editor to verify the virtual machine's devices are set up as you expect before starting the installation. 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.īefore 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). 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. The instructions below are for the simplest case of one virtual IDE hard drive and one virtual IDE CD-ROM drive. You must FDISK and FORMAT the VMware Workstation virtual hard disk drives before running Windows 95 setup. Note: Some Windows 95 distributions provide instructions that do not include the steps to FDISK and FORMAT a C: drive. You may need to purchase a new copy of Windows to install within a virtual machine. 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.
#Windows 95 osr2 emulator mac drivers#
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.
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