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Bochs Tutorial (windows98se)
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:13 pm
by Bucko
Hey guys, I followed the tutorial for running bochs every step and it works great. The virtual pc window opens but it gives me "Fatal: Could not read the boot disk". I assume this is because of my crappy phillips drive that don't work.
Is there anyway I can install windows via an ISO? Could someone talk me through it? Thanks a bunch, I'm sure the guru nobspangle would be able to help me out.
Re: Bochs Tutorial (windows98se)
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 5:40 pm
by Desertboy
Bucko wrote:Hey guys, I followed the tutorial for running bochs every step and it works great. The virtual pc window opens but it gives me "Fatal: Could not read the boot disk". I assume this is because of my crappy phillips drive that don't work.
Is there anyway I can install windows via an ISO? Could someone talk me through it? Thanks a bunch, I'm sure the guru nobspangle would be able to help me out.
Don't use bochs it's far far too slow
If you really must run windows Qemu is a much much better option a lot faster.
Bochs on my P4 2.4ghz performs like a slow 286, qemu performs like a 400mhz P2.
I got officeXP installed through crossover office on linux and performance was very good if it's just one application your after wine is probably the way forward.
Posted: Sun Jul 25, 2004 6:46 pm
by Bucko
that doesn't answer my question. My DVD Drive doesnt not work, anyway way to install windows 98se in bochs via Network or somthing?
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 7:29 am
by nobspangle
I'm just guessing but you can probably just mount the CD over a network in /mnt/cdrom
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 12:14 pm
by Bucko
I'm just guessing but you can probably just mount the CD over a network in /mnt/cdrom
Yer, I was thinking of somthing like making a virtual cd drive and as nobspangle said mount the image. How would I make a virtual cd drive in Linux, I use demon tools on windows doubt that could be used in Linux. Any idea, it would be faster than doing it through a network.
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 1:44 pm
by nobspangle
just mount the iso as a loopback
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mount -t iso9660 -o loop /path/to/image.iso /mnt/cdrom
Posted: Mon Jul 26, 2004 11:16 pm
by Bucko
simple as that eh?
, will try it soon, thanks!
Posted: Tue Jul 27, 2004 12:22 pm
by Bucko
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Xbox root # mount -t iso9660 -o loop /mnt/fatx/f/Win98/WIN98SE.img /mnt/cdrom
mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/loop2,
or too many mounted file systems
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 4:47 pm
by nobspangle
I'm not sure if your *.img file is an iso
Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2004 10:01 pm
by Bucko
I thought that :p, ill convert it.
edit..
ok i did that but it still says the same, could not read the boot disk.
Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2004 12:53 pm
by Bucko
any ideas?
Posted: Tue Aug 03, 2004 1:55 pm
by Bucko
well, anyone ever done this?