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[sindi keesan <keesan AT sdf.lonestar.org>]

On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, James Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 25 Apr 2006, sindi keesan wrote:
>
> > > NTFS partitions.  Second, he could download my qemu image of BL3.4,
> > > install qemu for Windows, boot the BL image and toy around with it to see
> >
> > Is it a free download?
>
> Go to http://free.oszoo.org/download.html .  The qemu program is GPL.
> Only the accelerator is closed-source.  The Win versions tend to lag
> behind the Linux version: looks like the Win version is only at 0.7.2
> while Linux is at 0.8.0.
>
> I'm installing Win 98 under qemu in BL3 right now.  I'll post screenshots
> later.  Best of both worlds for your clients who insist on having Win
> installed, too?
>
> James

Will this work if he starts with Windows XP and then adds  qemu and then 
BL3 or some other linux?

We have one laptop with a larger hard drive and Win98SE, that has all the 
hardware working including a PDA, which I don't want to remove - can I add 
Windows qemu and put your 100MB BL3 on it?  There is plenty of space but I 
am hesitant to resize partitions.

DOes qemu have any advantage over running in a DOS loop?

But we don't really need to use that laptop for linux. My partner seems to 
have fixed another laptop (non-Windows) by fdisking mbr.  It was not 
creating partitions properly, or mounting them at all, and then stopped 
booting from hard drive.  There was also a lost cluster, removed with 
scandisk.  What is the linux equivalent of scandisk for fixing the file 
system?  e2fsck just kept reporting errors and said the physical size and 
the partition size did not match.  Fdisk reported error 16 when I wrote 
the partition table.  COuld it have been a virus?   How does one fdisk 
/mbr in linux?

I expect your qemu setup will attract a lot of new users.
Sindi