VM Win 98 SE image

[almer]

I am having difficulty creating Win 98 SE image for virtual machine. Can anybody help me with file?
To answer potential questions: I am using very specialized applications (DOS based) and would like to have ability to use them on a contemporary PC (W7 box) and not to have dedicated old machine to support. I have licenses for Win 98 SE and Win 95 SE. Either OS will be fine for our applications.
Any help is greatly appreciated in advance,

 

[postmortemIA]

in short, you need to make new disk, format it, install windows 98 on it using windows 98 startup disk.

in detail:
create virtual disk, size about 10gb
start virtual machine with windows 98 startup floppy or windows 98 startup disk cd image - this is available on allbootdisks.com:
http://www.allbootdisks.com/download/98.html
make 1 partition using fdisk
make it active
reboot, again run win 98 startup disk
format with fat32
start setup.exe -> follow onscreen instructions

good luck!

 

[MrChad]

Will the applications run under DOSBox? Might be easier than a VM-based solution.

 

[VinylxScratches]

DosBox might work.