Re: [Plex86-devel] Installing win2k ...

[Yann Collete]

Hello,

I've tried an other technique with win 98. It may works with win NT:

- Hello,

- After a lot of tries, I succeedeed in booting windows 98. It works fine.
- First of all, I've got some screenshots, where do I send these images ?

- Here's the steps I follow:

- step 1 - It build a 500 Mo image file using bximage.
- step 2 - I launch bochs so as to boot under the windows 98 CDROM. I exit the install 
-          process (F3 to times). I launch fdisk to set up a partition then I reboot bochs, exit 
-          again the install process and format the image (format c:).
- step 3 - I copy this image under windows (cp win.img /mnt/win/C). 
- step 4 - I boot under windows 98 and, using winimage (http://www.winimage.com) version 5.0
-          because winimage version 6.0 doesn't work. I think we can mount raw 
image under linux
-          and so doesn't have to use a shareware but, it looks like there's a bug in the kernel 
-         (see http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101091327031072&w=2 <http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=101091327031072&w=2>).
- step 5 -  I copy all the windows directory in the image. I copy all the files (including system files) 
-           in the windows root directory to the image.
- step 6 -  I format a floppy disk with system files (so as to have a bootable 
disk with system
-           to init the image) and copy sys.com (or exe I don't remember) onto 
this disk.
- step 7 - I boot under linux, launch bochs so as to boot under the floppy disk 
and have the image file mounted.
- step 8 - under the floppy disk, I do a sys c:
- step 9 -  I reboot bochs so as to boot under the disk and that's all.

- If you tried to follow a "classical" way, I took more than a day to windows 
98 to install and, during the plug
- and play detection, bochs dies.

- I think it's possible to skip the floppy disk format (step 6) if you format 
the image disk and transfert systems
- files at the same times (step 2)  (don't remember the options of format - 
maybe /S). In that case, don't forget
- to skip the copy of these files during step 5.

- Your sincerely,

- Yann COLLETTE




Lars Segerlund wrote:

>  Hi,
>
>   I'm getting to this point :-( ... and I have done the same procedure 
> a couple of times now, thus trying to boot and install from the win2k 
> cd fails here.
>
>   Does anybody have any tips ? About where to start to look ? It 
> seem's to be a hardware emulation issue ?
>
>  / Lars Segerlund.
>
>
> [VGA  ] <INFO>  char map select: #1=0 / #2=0 (unused)
> ::ESC3:
>
> ::ESC5:
>
> ioctl PLEX86_ACTTIMER: : Invalid argument
> Shutting down plugins
> [XGUI ] <INFO>  Exit.
> Unmapping guest physical memory.
> Unmapping monitor print buffer.
> Tearing down VM
> Closing VM
> bash-2.05b$
>
>
>
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