Thanks, that worked great!

On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 11:45, Smith, Brett wrote:
> download http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/freedos.img.bz2
> uncompress it and see if you can use it
> qemu freedos.img
> If not you may need to reinstall qemu...
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:29 AM
> To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Run two OS simultaneously
> 
> 
> Sorry, I actually did try that as well as several other things, I simply
> posted my last try which left that off.
>   qemu -hda win98.img -cdrom win98.iso -boot d
> 
> 
> On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 11:12, Smith, Brett wrote:
> > It looks like you forgot the cdrom option -cdrom w98.iso
> > 
> > qemu -hda w98.img -cdrom w98.iso -boot d 
> > 
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 11:10 AM
> > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Run two OS simultaneously
> > 
> > 
> > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 09:31, Smith, Brett wrote:
> > > qemu is all you need ...
> > > read the docs on qemu
> > > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html#SEC10
> > > and check out bochs how to as it will help you understand
> > > then when you are ready do this
> > > 
> > > dd if=/dev/zero of=w98.img bs=1024 seek=mysize count=0
> > > 
> > > myimage should be your disk size in kb. <not sure but I think you can
> put
> > M
> > > behind it for MB>
> > > 
> > > then make and iso of your w98disk. I do this for speed. it is not
> > necessary
> > > but you will want to installs take a while no need to tie up the cdrom
> > drive
> > > 
> > > dd if=/dev/cdrom of=w98.iso bs=1024
> > > 
> > > then when all that is done do this
> > > 
> > > qemu -hda w98.img -cdrom w98.iso -boot d 
> > > 
> > 
> > Unfortunately, at this point I'm getting the infamous "BIOS panic at
> > rombios.c, line 1558" error:
> >   $ qemu -hda win98.img -boot d
> >   Serial port redirected to /dev/pts/3
> >   QEMU 0.5.5 monitor - type 'help' for more information
> >   (qemu) BIOS panic at rombios.c, line 1558
> > 
> > 
> >   $ ls -l
> >   total 124784
> >   -rw-rw-r--    1 jonc     jonc     2048000000 May 25 10:32 win98.img
> >   -rw-rw-r--    1 jonc     jonc     127647744 May 25 10:37 win98.iso
> > 
> > I created the img file using /dev/zero and then I copy up the win98se
> > disk to an iso image. I can mount the ISO image via loopback and it
> > works fine.
> > 
> > Jon Carnes
> > 
> > > *** Boot on floppy (a), hard disk (c) or CD-ROM (d). Hard disk boot is
> the
> > > default. *** 
> > > 
> > > this should start the install for you
> > > 
> > > then when it is time to reboot change the command to boot from c
> > > 
> > > qemu -hda w98.img -cdrom w98.iso -boot c
> > > 
> > > 
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: Jon Carnes [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Sent: Tuesday, May 25, 2004 9:22 AM
> > > To: Triangle Linux Users Group discussion list
> > > Subject: RE: [TriLUG] Run two OS simultaneously
> > > 
> > > 
> > > On Tue, 2004-05-25 at 07:54, Smith, Brett wrote:
> > > > Don't forget CoLinux http://www.colinux.org/
> > > > QEMU is the fastest free x86 emulator
> > http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/
> > > > I run Windows 2000 in QEMU now...
> > > > Bochs is way to slow for anything other than development
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > I tried running the binary on an up-to-date RH9 box (if such thing can
> > > really exist now that it is EOL'ed by Red Hat)... 
> > >   "qemu-i386" gives a segmentation fault 
> > >  (though "qemu" gives the standard help menu type items) 
> > > 
> > > I'll probably have to compile it to get it to run nicely. Is it worth
> > > it? How do you load a Win98 image onto it?  I don't see a way to bring
> > > up the emulator in simple BIOS emulation mode (so that I can load the CD
> > > and install Win98).
> > > 
> > > Jon Carnes
> > > 
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