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Getting connected

Connecting your VM to the internet for browsing the web.

What we are going to do:

Configuring settings

  1. Tap your VM

  2. Go to your VMs config

  3. Go to "Network"

  4. Make sure "Enabled" is on

  5. Make sure "Emulated Network Card" is set to "rtl8139" If it is not, tap "Emulated Network card" and find "rtl8139"

  6. Save your settings

Make sure your installation ISO is still attached to the VM. If not, attach it again by tapping CD/DVD and Browse.

Copying the Windows 98 drivers to an accessible folder on our C:/ drive

Why?

When the system installs drivers on startup, it sometimes cannot detect the CD-ROM drive

  1. Start the Virtual Machine

  2. Click "My Computer"

  3. Click the C: drive

  4. Right click and make a new folder called "drivers"

  5. Open that folder

  6. Make another folder called "network"

  7. Go back to "My Computer"

  8. Right click the Windows 98 install disk and click "Explore"

  9. Copy the "win98" folder

  10. Go back to your "drivers" folder

  11. Paste the folder

Some files might be hidden because they are recognized as system files. To fix that, do this:

  1. In the menu bar of Explorer, click "View"

  2. Click "Folder Options"

  3. Click the "View" tab

  4. Under "Hidden files", tick off "Show all files"

  5. Click "OK"

If you want to hide system files again, repeat this but tick off "Do not show hidden or system files" instead.

Now we need to get the network drivers.

Get the driver for the network card and mount it to the VM

Here is the ISO file with the network drivers. Tap it to download.

rtldrivers.iso
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Drivers for the RTL network card

When the file has finished downloading, follow these steps:

  1. Open UTM back up

  2. Tap the CD icon

  3. Tap "Removable Drive"

  4. Tap "Browse"

  5. Find the ISO you downloaded and tap it

  6. Tap "Done"

Copy the drivers

  1. Open the newly inserted drive. It should be called "Isoimage"

  2. Copy its contents

  3. Go back to your "C:/drivers/network" folder

  4. Paste the files

Install the PCI-bus driver

  1. Right-click "My Computer" on the Desktop

  2. Click "Properties"

  3. Go to the "Device Manager" tab

  4. Look for "Plug and Play BIOS"

  5. Double-click it

  6. Go to the "Driver" tab

  7. Click "Update Driver..."

Now we will install the correct driver.

  1. Click "Next"

  2. Tick off "Display a list of all the drivers..."

  3. Click "Next"

  4. Tick off "Show all hardware"

  5. Scroll down to "PCI bus" on the right side and click it

  6. Click "Next"

  7. Click "Yes"

  8. Click "Next"

  9. Click "Finish"

  10. It will tell you to restart. Click "Yes"

Install other drivers

When you have restarted, it will start installing a lot of different drivers. Read this entire section before proceeding.

  1. Click "Next"

  2. Click "Next" on the (Recommended) one

  3. "Floppy disk drives", "CD-ROM drive" and "Microsoft Windows Update" should all be off. "Specify a location" should be the only one on

  4. Type "C:\drivers\" and click "Next"

  5. It will search for a driver, and then tell you if it found anything.

  6. Click "Next"

  7. Wait for the driver to install

  8. Click "Finish"

Repeat this on all the next driver installations even if they don't install correctly (they might even install themselves) and reboot when it tells you to.

If the device you are installing is called "PCI Ethernet Controller":

  1. Click "Next" until you can "Specify a location"

  2. Type "C:\drivers\network\"

  3. Click "Next"

  4. "Next" again

If it asks you to insert the Windows 98 CD-ROM:

  1. Click OK

  2. Set the location to C:\drivers\win98

  3. Click OK

(Optional) Install Firefox

Internet Explorer is very outdated and does not work with most pages. Therefore, we will be installing the latest release of Firefox that supports Windows 98.

You can of course install any other browser of your choice, but here i will show how to install Firefox.

Here is the original file from Mozilla. I have put this installer into an ISO file, so you can install it without problems.

firefox.iso
6MB
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Firefox Installer in an ISO

  1. Tap the CD icon

  2. Tap "Browse"

  3. Find and tap the downloaded ISO

  4. Double click "My Computer"

  5. Double click the CD Drive (firefox)

  6. Double click the Firefox Installer

  7. Install Firefox like a normal program

  8. When it's done, it should appear on your desktop

  9. Open it, and try a website like google.com

Complete!

You can now browse the web on almost all sites. Remember, this browser and OS is very old, and therefore will not work on all sites.

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