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'Fraid not. But just to check, I tried it. It passed over the CD and booted from DOS as usual.

It installs 7 but leaves the existing 6 in place so long as you have it in a place that 95 doesn't overlay it." I don't follow that. How do you install Win95 in a different place from where you installed DOS initially? Doesn't Win95 refuse to install unless DOS is already present?

You do understand about config.sys and autoexec.bat to load the drivers for the cdrom drive, and also to set the drive letter,right?" Wrong. I know nothing except what I'm picking up from places like this. It's years since I've used DOS or early Windows. I've been going round in circles trying...

^See my previous post. That's all sorted. But installing Windows isn't sorted. I booted into DOS inserted the Win95 disc, then typed "d:" to read the CD-ROM drive. Result "Invalid Drive". And no other drive letters are recognized either, except a: and b: for the floppy drives. Stuck again.

Okay, I've done it. I hosed the whole disk with zeroes and re-installed. But not without mis-hap. The first time through, I had an 8Gb usb stick inserted. It formatted it instead of the hard drive. Luckily there was nothing on it of any value. The second attempt went without a hitch. So, now...

I don't know about your F5/F8 thing. On mine it's F2/F12, but I don't see how that would solve it. All it does is give me a choice of where to boot from. If I choose hard-drive I'll just get the result I had before. I found an old Dos tools CD in my collection and booted from that. Then I got...

I tried running Win95 inside a VM running inside Ubuntu Linux, but I didn't like it much. Also there are some Dos programs I want to use that have to run in real mode, not VM. So what I need is a proper DOS install, with Win95 going on top. I bought DOS 6.2 discs on ebay last week and tried to...

^Okay, I'll have a go at all that. Thanks for the info.

I gotta say it isn't that easy to use. The instructions can be quite obscure. I wanted to install it from my old and legal Win95 disk. But I couldn't persuade the installer to do it. It doesn't seem to recognize real disks, only virtual ones. But I've got the thing up and running. What I can't...

Thanks, I'll give that one a go.

Hi, I'm using Linux Ubuntu as my main OS, but I'd like to used Windows95 from time to time. I have an old disk I haven't used for about 10 years. But rather than going through the hassle of installing it on a hard drive, I thought I'd give a virtual machine a try. Can anyone recommend one? How...