PCMCIA, havent heard that one for a while .. People Cand Memorise Computer Industry Acronyms!
Gary Baribault On 11/08/2010 10:36 AM, Hendrik Boom wrote: > While we're on the subject of virtualization: > > What's the best VM to use > to emulate an ancient Pentium laptop running Windows 95? The hardware > isn't quite dead yet. It has a floppy disk, which it will try to boot > from if plugged in, a CD reader, and ethernet port (on a PCMCIA card > (Did I remember the acronym from another era correctly?)), and a grand > total of 16M of memory. Total disk space might be around 2G, though oart > of this is probably a hidden partition that WIndows uses for its own > secret purpose (which secret purpose would probably have to be preseved > in emulation). > > And what's the best way of making a hard disk image from the existing > laptop that the VM is likely to boot from? Presumably I'd have to boot > some very minimal Linux from floppy and dd from /def/hda through the net > to another machine or something like that -- boot track, partition > table, and all. And then add whatever wrapping the VM software want. > > Or perhaps copying all the files would be sufficient? > > -- hendrik > > _______________________________________________ > mlug mailing list > [email protected] > https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca > _______________________________________________ mlug mailing list [email protected] https://listes.koumbit.net/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/mlug-listserv.mlug.ca
