It doesn't seem to take effect immediately, but just wait a few seconds. Press F6 when Windows Setup prompts you if you want to load additional drivers. Mount the floppy in VBox (either real or the disk image, the latter is faster), and make sure that the floppy drive is not set as one of the boot devices (or press F12 when you start the VM and boot the CD-ROM manually).
Just create a virtual machine now for Windows, and change the virtual hard disk so it uses SATA instead of the default IDE. Inside it is an EXE all it does is write an image to a real floppy if you're already using Windows and want to make a real floppy disk, go ahead and use it, otherwise just use an UnZip utility to extract the image (named F32.IMA). (note the position of the quotes on the last command, the asterisk cannot be placed inside quotes!)įor Windows XP/2003, you need to extract the f6flp圓2.zip Zip file. To create an appropriate image under GNU/Linux hosts, you will need the unzip and mtools software packages installed (check your local package manager):Ĭode: Select all Expand view Collapse view $ unzip AHCI_v7._for_ICH8.zip
(Under Windows, I am unfortunately not well-versed enough to understand how to create floppy images using native tools, however the GNU/Linux instructions should work under Cygwin as well) WARNING, of course, that using these drivers comes with a certain amount of risk scan with virus checkers and back up important data inside the VM periodically, I cannot guarantee the safety of these drivers.įor Windows 2000, you need to create a floppy disk (real or image) from the unofficial files you downloaded all the files should be placed in the root directory of the disk. If you need Windows 2000: There are no official drivers, however you may use unofficial drivers as described in an MSFN forum post. If you need Windows XP or 2003: Download the drivers from Intelģb. Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 installation CD-ROM any release/edition should do, although this process has only been tested on the latest service packsģa. Sun xVM VirtualBox version 1.6.0 or higher (this process has only been tested on 2.2.0, however)Ģ.
Additionally, when you use this with Windows 2000, you avoid the Win2k IDE driver bug which can cause installation failures as described in the VirtualBox manual section 11.2.2 you will not need to provide any delayed writing in order to install it on a fast computer.ġ. I'll show how to install Windows 2000, XP, or 2003 on a SATA disk without much hassle.