) icon:How to Set Up
and Run
The BOCHS Emulator
on a Windows™ PC
This Page
is (basically a place holder) New and Under Contruction !!!
About 7 years ago, we explained how BOCHS could be used to
learn Linux commands on a Windows PC. Well,
we're far overdue in helping our readers learn how to use the
Bochs Emulator to understand Master Boot Records!
Although the Bochs Emulator
has either binaries or source code for a number of different OS Platforms (such as Linux), the following
describes how Microsoft® Windows™ users in particular can
set up and run various image files of other operating systems and run them under the Bochs Emulator.
First, you need to download the latest 32-bit Bochs executable install file. Go to the following page, find a site
near you and click on the binary ( ) icon:
My copy of the Bochs-2.4.5.exe
file is nn,nnn,nnn bytes (n.nnMiB) and is easy on the Registry (it just
places an uninstall and recognition for its ".bxrc" Configuration
files which then have a little 'box' icon 
next to them). The default install location is: C:\Program Files\Bochs-2.4.5\
with subdirs for 'dlxlinux' (make sure
you install this! You need to click a check box for it, part way through the
install process), 'docs' (comes with what could end up being
very confusing HTML documentation for some of you; only parts of the one titled,
"User Guide" are helpful at this time) and 'keymaps'.
You can read more about bochs here: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/.
This Page is Under Contruction !!!
Revised: 21 OCT 2010.