On Mar 30, 2005, at 5:45 PM, Bruce Johnson wrote:
On Mar 30, 2005, at 3:17 PM, Anand Keathley wrote:
Hi all,
Well, I'm taking a class and a CD that comes with the book requires Windows '98 or higher. I've got a Sawtooth running at 1 GHz OS 10.3.8 and 9.2.2 with 896 MB RAM. any recommendations for that configuration? Lower cost is better. I'm taking this class as I am between jobs.
I just got Qemu running on my system.
It's slow, it's a mite complicated to set up, but it's free.
You need an internet connection and a Windows98 install CD.
Go here and get QemuX.
<http://cordney.com/QemuX/>
Download and install QemuX.
Click on the Plus sign in the QemuX to add a new PC. Select Install from CD (even though this didn't work for me this is how I know it works ;-)
It will create the PC and trundle along for a while doing nothing. Stop it.
Now take your Windows 98 installer CD, fire up Disk copy and make a disk image of it. Save the image in the same folder as your new 'PC's HD image.
Rename the CD image from .dmg to .img.
Start Qemu again. tell it to boot from the CD, and navigate to the CD imahge you made.
Start the 'PC'.
From now you're entering the command in the emulated PC window.
When you're prompted select boot with CD support.
Eventually you'll get to an dos prompt. change directories to the Windows folder on the CD. (which is drive E: I think)
type format C: at the prompt and hit return.
Answer the questions.
Wait...wait...wait...eventually C: is formatted.
Now type setup at the prompt and hit return.
wait wait wait, answer the questions wait wait wait. Installing Win98 took most of an afternoon on my system, a sawtooth with an 800 MHz processor. However I wasn't paying complete attention to it, it may have sat around a lot waiting for me to reply.
After that it was done. Win98 boots in about a minute; runs like it's a pentium 60 or so.
More help can be found in the forums at the QuemuX site.
I haven't gotten networking to function (and I think it may not function the way I think it's supposed to), but if you're just rinning stuff in the Windows box it's fine.
Need more than that, or easier than that, drop the bux on Virtual PC or Guest PC <http://www.lismoresystems.com/>
There's another freeware one called BOCHS, but I've never gotten that to work right.
-- Bruce Johnson
Another option is iEmulator, which I think is just an easier interface for Qemu. At $23.95 it wasn't very expensive so I took that route. I've tried several times to get Win98SE up and running but every time it gets to the part where it is supposed to run Win98 for the first time, it hangs and says that C drive is not bootable. I installed MS-DOS 6.22 on that drive so I know it is bootable, but for some reason it just won't work with the Win98 installer. You are right about the slowness though and mine is even worse on the B&W with the G4-500 Mhz! At least DOS works fine and I can play the old Commander Keen games which were a lot of fun in their days.
Just a message from Doug...
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