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qemu-system-i386 error during install windows 95/98

Host environment

  • Operating system: MacBook Air MacOS 13.5

  • OS/kernel version: Darwin appleontheroad.local 22.6.0 Darwin Kernel Version 22.6.0: Wed Jul 5 22:22:52 PDT 2023; root:xnu-8796.141.3~6/RELEASE_ARM64_T8103 arm64

  • Architecture: ARM

  • QEMU flavor: qemu-system-i386

  • QEMU version: 8.0.91 (v8.1.0-rc1-46-gccb86f07)

  • QEMU command line: qemu-system-i386 -blockdev driver=file,node-name=f0,filename=disk01.img -device floppy,drive=f0 -drive file=win95.img -boot a -m 16 -cdrom win95_full_ar.osr2_en.iso

Emulated/Virtualized environment

  • Operating system: Windows 95
  • OS/kernel version:
  • Architecture: x86

Description of problem

Installation of the Windows starts but when Windows 95 is supposed to copy files it failes like: qemu803_win95 Installation of Windows 98 failes like: qemu803_win98

Steps to reproduce

  1. get boot floppy & install cd for windows 95
  2. create hard drive C image
  3. try to install Windows 95

Additional information

Edited by Jonas Svensson
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