Hi! Wondering if anyone can suggest where I’m going wrong. When I follow the guides I find everywhere that say to load up DOSBOX Pure, tweak it feels 64MB memory and Pentium chipset and then select Content the Windows CD .iso I just get a message ‘No executable found’.
Am I doing something wrong?
On my Samsung Galaxy Note 10 Plus 5G.
There is a lot of confusing information on the web, it is advisable to check the documentation first…
Installing an Operating System
There is no need to change anything in the configuration, the core will configure everything automatically.
Once started, Windows installs normally, you would only need to install DirectX, the voodoo driver and the CD-ROM driver to avoid bad times.
Here on the forum, an amazing user has answered several times how to install windows step by step.
You have this video as a visual aid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9xynDgexf5Y&t=310s
I installed and played a few games so far, maybe 30. The only drivers I remember installing are directx9.0c_april2006 and voodoo_graphics_driver_kit_version_3.01.00, but no CD-ROM driver. Is this maybe part of Windows 98 Second Edition? Are there any known issues if no CD-ROM driver is installed?
I’m not getting that far. It won’t load the Win 98 iso. Just says no executable found.
Starting to wonder if there’s some issue with doing this type of thing on a Galaxy Note 10. I can’t get Limbo to boot a disc either.
There are some games that can’t be installed if you don’t update, Red Alert 2 comes to mind. Maybe this error is related to copy protection because the driver that DOSBox has is something more like a virtual drive.
The ‘Stardar CD-ROM device’ is enough, they all work the same.
Are you following the steps in the guide? I don’t know which step is giving you an error.
When you load the CD image, (iso or compressed in a zip) of Windows appears the option “Boot and Install New Operating System”, when you select it you start the process.
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You must have a bootable CD or a bootable Windows floppy disc, both compressed in a zip.
The only bootable version of Windows 98 (First Edition) is the one that says ‘OEM FULL’, the others are not and you need the bootable FD.
But, if you have this one, I actually recommend getting Windows 98 SE (Second Edition).
It works perfectly, and I don’t know what Limbo is.
I load content, pick the Win98SE OEM Full iso file I downloaded from the popular OS website. Picked DOSBox Pure for the Core and then get the message that there’s no executable.
It has not loaded anything, the important one is the one below. “Unable to open”, it is possible that the ISO is corrupted.
Can you load WinME?
WinME gives the same error. I’ve downloaded multiple copies of Win95, Win98SE and WinME and always get this same response.
That’s strange, maybe RetroArch doesn’t have permission to access that directory?
Looks like a bug, possibly better to report it on github.
