Carl Lowenstein wrote:
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.
I know little about this, but can you make an image of one of your two successful installs of w98 and just replace the blank disk image? (I'm guessing that the emulator handles things differently enough to preclude success with this.)
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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