Re: [Qemu-devel] CDROM /Network with Win98 : summary of answers

[Emmanuel Charpentier]

Dear list,

A big thank to to all who responded ! You were all very helpful

A short sumary of what works and doesn't in your answers :

- Installation : you do need to copy the oakroom.sys driver, the mscdex.exe 
driver and to edit autoexec.bat and config.sys in order to get access to 
the cd.

- installing the network card : has to be done manually with the "new 
hardware" control panel utility. Seems to work.

- VGA : installing the SVGA driver doesn't give you much : you're still 
stuck with 640x480x16c. It's still horribly *S*L*O*W* ...

- sound : -enable-sound works (sort off) but you get lots of error messages 
 in the monitor and qemu eventually crashes.

Now for Win2K :

- copying (or symlinking) : doesn't work.

- switching the disks in the monitor : works (sort off), but the 2nd stage 
install doesn't finf*d the "hard disk.

- Installing Win98 then upgrading to W2K : works, but is highly tedious.

- creating a Win2KSP4 bootdisk (as desctibed in http://www.bink.nu/bootcd) 
: if you have access to a Win2K installation on native hardware, it works 
with the downloaded version of NERO. I tried to create a bootdisk with 
mkisofs/cdrecord, and failed (the bootrecord program doesn't find "NTLDR). 
This has probably links to the zillion options you have to set in Nero, 
some oif them having no equivalent in mkisofs (the ISO9660 charset is 
highly suspicious ...).

I have had various hurdles with Win2K installation and use, but I'l report 
them separately. I have to say that this installation is *impressive* : 
Win2k is actually usable (at least on fast hardware). A pity that MS 
Office, Openoffice or mozilla doesn't install (more on this later ...).

Again, thank you !

                                        Emmanuel Charpentier

PS : Again, could you please Cc me your possible answers : I'm not on the 
list and reading it through the archives ...