On Wed, Mar 30, 2005 at 11:25:04AM -0800, Carl Lowenstein wrote: > > 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. >
No, I construed you just fine. That's why I said: None of this has much to do with your challenge I suspect. I was just in one of those I-feel-like-typing moods. -- Lan Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Linux Guy, SCM Specialist 858-354-0616 -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-steer
