Images for several CentOS flavours are available.
Reviewer: some random VMware user, i search for ISOs and VMware images - favorite favorite favorite favorite favorite - December 4, 2020 Subject: Hey, what i was looking for! After discovering that VirtualBox is crap and decided to use VMware as of now, this is exactly what i was looking ahead for. Microsoft windows 95 free download. Picktorrent: windows 95 iso virtualbox - Free Search and Download Torrents at search engine. Download Music, TV Shows, Movies, Anime, Software and more. Find out below links and VDI providers where you can download and use pre installed Operating Systems for Oracle VirtualBox on Windows platform. Here is a list of virtual disk images available for VirtualBox: Windows 95 ('C' version) Notes: If you get a protection error, make sure your RAM is set between 100-200 MB, and then reset the virtual machine by going to Machine Reset. If you want to follow along, all you need is VirtualBox (completely free and developed by Oracle), a Windows 95 ISO file and a bootable disk image. DOS Image: Display. How to Install Windows 95 in a Virtual Machine. By Chris Hoffman on October 13th, 2017. A Windows 95 ISO file and a Windows 95 boot disk image. Unlike modern operating systems, the Windows 95 installation disc isn’t bootable. If you name it “Windows 95”, VirtualBox will automatically choose the correct Windows version.
- CentOS 5.1
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 620 MBytes / 2.53 GBytes
Link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/virtualboximage/centos-5.1-x86.7z
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/roottoor, centos/reverse
Notes: GNOME desktop environment, Guest Additions not installed. - CentOS 5.2
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 529 MBytes / 2.53 GBytes
Link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/virtualboximage/centos-5.2-x86.7z
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/toortoor
Notes: NO GUI; Guest Additions not installed; additional server package installed - CentOS 5.3
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 668.1 MBytes / 3.10 GBytes
Link: http://downloads.sourceforge.net/virtualboximage/centos-5.3-x86.7z
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/roottoor, centos/reverse
Notes: GNOME desktop environement; Guest Additions not installed. - CentOS 5.6 x86_64
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 269.9 MBytes / 1,7 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.6/Centos-x86_64.7z/download
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: Guest Additions not installed; In /etc/ssh/sshd_config GSSAPIAuthentication no - CentOS 5.6 Gnome Desktop x86_64
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 993 MBytes / 4.3 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.6/Centos-desktop-x86_64.7z/download
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse,centos/reverse.
Notes: GNOME desktop environement; Guest Additions not installed. - CentOS 6.0 Gnome Desktop x86
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 596.9 MBytes / 2.4 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.0/CentOS-6-Gnome-i386.7z/download
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
Notes: GNOME desktop environement; Guest Additions not installed. - CentOS 6.0 base x86
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 274 MBytes / 1.4 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.0/CentOS-6-i386.7z/download
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: text mode installed, no graphics - CentOS 6.0 base x86_64
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 299 MBytes / 1.7 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.0/CentOS-6-x86_64.7z/download
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: text mode installed, no graphics - CentOS 5.7 base x86
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 173 MBytes / 1.3 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.7/CentOS-5.7-i386.7z/download
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: text mode installed, no graphics - CentOS 5.7 Gnome x86
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 470 MBytes / 2.5 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.7/CentOS-5.7-Gnome-i386.7z/download
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse centos/reverse.
Notes: Guest Additions installed, gcc, kernel-headers and devel - CentOS 6.2 Gnome Desktop x86
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 474 MBytes / 2.1 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.2/CentOS-6.2-i386.7z
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
Notes: GNOME desktop environement, install from LiveCD; Guest Additions NOT installed. - CentOS 5.8 Gnome Desktop x86
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 897 MBytes / 3.6 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/5.8/CentOS-5.8-Gnome-i386.7z
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
Notes: GNOME desktop environement, install from multi CD; Guest Additions NOT installed. - CentOS 6.3 Gnome Desktop x86
Size (compressed/uncompressed): 492 MBytes / 2.2 GBytes
Link: http://sourceforge.net/projects/virtualboximage/files/CentOS/6.3/CentOS-6.3-x86.7z
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
Notes: GNOME desktop environement, install from LiveCD; Guest Additions NOT installed. - CentOS 5.9 base x86
Size: 740 MBytes
MD5SUM of ova image: 3a3217d7e9cf42f20ba5d39f7345f123
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-5.9-i386.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: Installed from netinstall; Guest Additions NOT installed. - CentOS 5.9 Gnome x86
Size: 1.2 GBytes
MD5SUM of ova image: 68cffe3c65551ddc6de7c9d2d97dd2e0
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-5.9-i386-Gnome.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse
Notes: Installed from netinstall; Guest Additions NOT installed. - CentOS 6.4 minimal x86
Size: 398 MBytes
MD5SUM of ova image: 2dcbe358414e1f589a1578e8ad75c87b
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.4-i386-minimal.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: Installed from netinstall; Guest Additions NOT installed. - CentOS 6.4 Gnome x86
Size: 1.1 GByte
MD5SUM of ova image: abb9ece8e59cf231d88590d0909275c6
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.4-i386-Gnome.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse, centos/reverse.
Notes: Installed from netinstall; Guest Additions NOT installed.
Packages added with “yum groupinstall” to the minimal version:# yum -y groupinstall 'Desktop' 'Desktop Platform' 'X Window System' 'Graphical Administration Tools' 'General Purpose Desktop'
You can also install the following optional GUI packages.# yum -y groupinstall 'Office Suite and Productivity'
# yum -y groupinstall 'Graphics Creation Tools'
- CentOS 5.10 base x86
Size: 361 MBytes / 1.2 GB uncompressed
MD5SUM of ova image: 6328b640adf8ef741859e672687f8c17
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-5.10.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: Installed from netinstall. Guest Additions NOT installed. Some services have been disabled at boot - CentOS 6.5 minimal x86
Size: 349 MBytes
MD5SUM of ova image: 321edee90302ed4525db9e647ac29adc
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.5-i386-minimal.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: Installed from CentOS-6.5-i386-minimal.iso; Guest Additions NOT installed, Fix DHCP eth0 up - CentOS 7.0 Base
Size: 585 MBytes
MD5SUM of ova image: f41153b8941c7f277a444a8e0be88a18
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS7-base.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse centos/reverse (sudo enabled).
Notes: Installed from CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-NetInstall.iso; Guest Additions NOT installed - CentOS 7.0 Gnome
Size: 2.0 GBytes
MD5SUM of ova image: a7cc821c1d417ac66df5c1edd00ee0ab
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS7-Gnome.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse centos/reverse (sudo enabled).
Notes: Base Installed from CentOS-7.0-1406-x86_64-NetInstall.iso
Gnome installed by
# yum groupinstall “GNOME Desktop” “Graphical Administration Tools”
set default runlevel 5
Guest Additions NOT installed. - CentOS 6.6 minimal x86
Size: 315 MBytes
MD5SUM of ova image: f7387aa0bab16f5011f82bdff4596267
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.6-i386-minimal.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: Installed from CentOS-6.6-i386-minimal.iso; Guest Additions NOT installed, fix eth0 up at boot - CentOS 6.6 minimal x86_64
Size: 323 MBytes
MD5SUM of ova image: 9cacb27b67fcd2de01a4860e0e4b855c
Link: https://s3-eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/virtualboxes.org/CentOS-6.6-x86_64-minimal.ova.torrent
Active user account(s)(username/password): root/reverse.
Notes: Installed from CentOS-6.6-x86_64-minimal.iso; Guest Additions NOT installed, fix eth0 up at boot
It’s been much longer between my posts than I’d like. We had a re-org at work a little while back and now I’m up for another position that I’m waiting to hear on. It’s like a desktop administrator position but more.
I have a bit of a nostalgia bug and I found my old copy of Windows 95 a while back. I’ve been wanting to install it in a VM so I could play around with it again and remember old times. I made an ISO from it, mounted it, and attempted an installation. I forgot back then that CD’s weren’t bootable and I didn’t still have the boot disk. I do, however, still have my old Win98 boot disk. I think it has corrupted, however. It wouldn’t matter tho, I don’t think, as I only have an external floppy drive and the software back then didn’t support USB!
So I looked on the net and found some boot disk images. I also did a quick google search to see how complicated it was for other folks. There sure are a lot of folks that had a lot of problems! I found it to be farely simple, to be honest. I did get a few tidbits of info that helped me along in my adventure to figure it out. I’ll have several links at the end of the post. But here’s how I did it:
I’m running VirtualBox 4.1.2 r73507 on Windows 7 Ultimate, 64-bit
I have Windows 95 “A” (although the boot disk I found will work for either, I believe)
I have Windows 95 “A” (although the boot disk I found will work for either, I believe)
Boot Disk and Installation CD
- If you don’t have the original boot floppy you’ll need to get a copy of the boot disk image from: http://www.allbootdisks.com/
- Make an ISO of your Win95 CD and save it somewhere. You can mount this directly in VirtualBox which is nice. If you don’t want to do it that way, you can make another virtual drive and mount it in MagicDisc (another free app)
- An alternative is to create a single ISO that includes the boot disk and Win 95. I’ve outlined that below, or you can skip to step 4.
- You can also burn both the boot disk and the Win 95 files to the same disc (but this as issues) to make one, bootable CD!
- To do this in ImgBurn launch the program and select “Write files/folders to Disk”
- On the window that comes up, the left space is where you add the folders and files (don’t forget both, they are separate icons) from the Win 95 CD. The icons are have magnifying glasses over a sheet of paper and one over a folder. I added the files and then each of the folders individually so that they will be at the root of the file structure. Also add the program xcopy!
- Click on the “Advanced” tab on the left and then on “Bootable Disc” below that.
- Check the box “Make Image Bootable”
- Emulation Type: Floppy Disk 1.44MB
- Boot Image: add the .img file you downloaded from above.
- That should be it for your discs. I highly recommend having two ISO’s and just mounting them in VB, but hopefully the steps above will help you if for some reason you can’t do that
VirtualBox Setup
Virtualbox Windows 95 Image
Windows 95 Virtualbox Image Centos Usb
- Started off by creating a new 5GB VDI Hard disk and making it Windows 95
- I configured mine to use 512MB of RAM
- BEFORE LAUNCHING THE NEW DISK you need to change some configuration.
- Right click on the new VDI in your list and go to Settings
- Select System on the left and you can configure your RAM size if you didn’t already. Also change the Boot order so that the CD/DVD-ROM is first
- Click on the Acceleration tab and UNCHECK “Enable VT-x/AMD-V”
- If you don’t do this step, when you go to boot after installation of Win 95 you’ll hang at a black screen.
- Click on Storage on the left so we can add the ISO’s we’ll be using.
- Click the icon that has a plus sign over a single disk (not a disk stack) to add a CD/DVD Device
- Add the Bootable image FIRST so that it is the primary slave (which is what it will try to boot from)
- Then add the Win 95 installation iso
- Click OK to save the settings
- Launch the new VDI!
- PAY ATTENTION to the initial boot screen. It’s going to list two drives right above the A:> prompt.
- The first drive letter is your Win 95 installation CD (Mine is set to R:).
- The boot disc is automatically mounted to the A: drive.
- Since this is a brand new VDI there is no partitioned drive. Win95 setup isn’t capable of creating one so you have to do that.
- Type format c: at the prompt and hit [enter]. Type Y for yes when it asks if you’re sure and hit [enter]. You can enter anything for the Volume label.
- The Win95 setup doesn’t mount your CD drive after you reboot , thus the continued setup for Windows can’t complete because it cant find the Win95 CD. You’ll get a bunch of dll errors. The OS will still boot but it’s a lot of errors. To fix this we need to copy the Win95 CD to the C drive so we can access it later.
- From the A:> prompt type xcopy R: C:WIN95 /S
- Remember to substitute R: for the drive letter that yours is.
- Now switch to your C: drive to run the setup
- Type C: and hit [enter]
- Type cd win95 and hit [enter]
- Type setup and hit [enter]. It will tell you it has to do a scan before it can install, hit [enter] to proceed.
- You should now be in the setup wizard for Win 95. I’ll trust you can follow the prompts from here.
- When it prompts you to restart after install is a good time to click on “Devices” and unmount your bootable iso. When I restarted after that I got a boot failure, but I just used “Reset” in the Machine menu to reset the box and then it was fine.
- It should then proceed with the usual setup and ask you a bit of input.
- After another reboot you should be all set to use Windows 95!
Getting on the Internet
I wasn’t sure if this would work but I was easily able to get on the internet. The bad part is most pages are using code that Internet Explorer 4 can’t render. However, if the site still uses just basic HTML you should be able to render it fine.
- Please note you’ll have wanted to install the virtual networking driver when you initially installed VirtualBox on your machine.
- Launch the “The Internet” icon
- Select to connect via your LAN
- Use DHCP
- Your DNS server will be your router IP
- Your Gateway will be your router IP
- Save it and reboot like it says
One “old school html” page you can load to try it out is www.bootdisk.com
And that’s it!
I did a lot of trial and error trying to figure out the best way to make the ISO’s and mount. It wasn’t until I got the xcopy idea that it all became beautifully simple. But if I had looked in the first place, I would have seen xcopy was part of the downloaded boot image all along : It was fun though!
Here are the links where I got a few tidbits of info to help me along:
Windows 95 Virtualbox Image
http://www.sevenforums.com/virtualization/10121-installing-windows-95-virtualbox-5.html (this is really the only one that helped me)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=533611 (sort of, it pointed me in a different direction which made me realize I needed to pursue a different path)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awo948eU_eE (I tried installing DOS 7.1 first but didn’t want to mess around with mounting my drive)
http://ubuntuforums.org/showthread.php?t=533611 (sort of, it pointed me in a different direction which made me realize I needed to pursue a different path)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Awo948eU_eE (I tried installing DOS 7.1 first but didn’t want to mess around with mounting my drive)