On Wed, 30 Mar 2005 11:13:10 -0800, Lan Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:03:16AM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote:
>
> > My initial goal was to load Windows98se because I have a genuine copy
> > of it. So far I have found that the numerous reboots necessary for
> > installing W98se confuse either Qemu or me, and I can't make it work.
> >
> > Anyone who wants to coach me in the fine points of installing Windows
> > is welcome to help.
> >
>
> There are no fine points to installing windoze. OK, none that I'm aware
> of. You just keep doing what it tells you to and rebooting and rebooting
> and rebooting -- OMYGOD -- sorry, flashbacks ... and then if/when it
> doesn't work, you start again.
>
> *Always* install windoze first if you can. It has no concept of playing
> at all, let alone playing nice.
You misconstrue me. I am trying to install Windows on a blank disk
image inside an emulator. It's a virgin machine. The problem is the
W98 apparently attacks the hardware directly to force a boot back to
the BIOS, and that doesn't work on the emulated BIOS. It just does
nothing.
As an exercise in futility, I set up a sacrificial real machine and
installed W98 on it. It worked. Twice. The second time I was trying
to observe when the reboots happened, so I could try to make the
emulator do that.
No such luck.
Windows Server 2003 (a demo disk) installs much more neatly, but isn't
very useable as a desktop system. It wasn't supposed to be.
carl
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