QEMU Instructions

The image built here was made with QEMU. In this doc, I'm keeping instructions around.

Disk image creation

qemu-img create -f raw windows95_v4.raw 1G

ISO CD image creation

hdiutil makehybrid -o output.iso /path/to/folder -iso -joliet

Installation

qemu-system-i386 \
    -cdrom Win95_OSR25.iso \
    -m 128 \
    -hda windows95.img \
    -device sb16 \
    -nic user,model=ne2k_pci \
    -fda Win95_boot.img \
    -boot a \
    -M pc,acpi=off \
    -cpu pentium

Boot from floppy
Run fdisk and format c:
Run D:\setup.exe with 24796-OEM-0014736-66386
After completing setup and restarting your computer, you might get an IOS Windows protection error
Use fix95cpu.ima as a bootable floppy to fix
Use vga-driver.iso to install different video driver

qemu-system-i386 \
    -m 128 \
    -hda images/windows95.img \
    -device sb16 \
    -M pc,acpi=off \
    -cpu pentium \
    -netdev user,id=mynet0 \
    -device ne2k_isa,netdev=mynet0,irq=10