[Resolved] How does one install BearWindows on Windows 98 SE

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[Resolved] How does one install BearWindows on Windows 98 SE

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Title says it all
Last edited by socratis on 15. Jun 2018, 00:38, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: How does one install BearWindows on Windows 98 SE

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Your problem is with a Windows Guest, not with a Windows Host. I deleted your duplicate post from the "Windows Hosts" section.

To answer your question, did you happen to look at the Howtos and Tutorials » Windows Guests section? There are two tutorials there that will help you:
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Re: How does one install BearWindows on Windows 98 SE

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Thank you for the pointers. However I have not found what I was looking for at those places. The howtos and tutorials post speak about BearWindows but they don't explain the installation process. If you happen to know how, I'd greatly appreciate it.

**EDIT**: If you have any other graphic drivers (excluding DisplayDoctor, not working for me), please tell me.
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Re: How does one install BearWindows on Windows 98 SE

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You unpack the appropriate driver zip package (which must be the BearWindows universal VESA driver, not the obsolete "VirtualBox" one), you right click the inf file and you choose Install from the context menu - all from inside the Win98SE guest of course.

Please bear in mind that you should not expect to find general Windows tuition on a VirtualBox site. For example "how do I install device drivers in Windows 98SE" is not a VirtualBox question by any stretch of the imagination. You should answer such questions using Google.
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Re: How does one install BearWindows on Windows 98 SE

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Booty wrote:However I have not found what I was looking for at those places.
Hmm... Interesting... Because I saw the following post from stefan.becker:
There is no automatic installation.
Unzip the driver in the guest. Start system control/display, chose the settings/advanced/vga-card, change the vga-card and choose option to show drivers in a directory, there choose manually the directory where you unzipped the driver.
...which is another way of doing what mpack suggested.

If you want to install older OSes, you got to start thinking like 20 years ago. No plug and play, no click-click installations, no easy task. And a lot of careful searching, trial and error.
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Re: How does one install BearWindows on Windows 98 SE

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Right clicking on the inf file did the trick. Thanks for the help. Also, I'm not really fluent in those old oses. I'm grateful for your help.

Thanks :)
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Re: How does one install BearWindows on Windows 98 SE

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Glad you got it going. Marking as [Resolved].
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