But for this tutorial, I chose Whistler build 2428.įirst, as usual, in VirtualBox, create a new virtual machine and call it 'Windows Whistler Build 2428'. This applies to most Windows Whistler builds, including Server 2003 betas. You do it by first installing a special version of MS-DOS 6.22 with CD-ROM support.įirst, you will need a copy of MS-DOS 6.22 with CD-ROM support, which you can get here: So there's a way to get around this (the alternative way).
But there's also an alternative way to install Windows Whistler or Server 2003 betas in VBox without having to clock the BIOS, which I'm going to show you in this howto.Īnyway, if you try to install Windows Whistler in VirtualBox without changing the correct date, you may get something that looks like this: This sticky tells the common way to set the BIOS date in VirtualBox. As you may know, most Windows Whistler builds require you to set the BIOS date back to a certain date to install in some hypervisors like VirtualBox.
