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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, David Moberg wrote:

> If you make a hard disk image with dd (large enough to install Windows
> 98 to), and you have the Windows 98 CD in a CD-ROM drive, you can use
> something like this:
>
> ------------------------------------
> qemu -cdrom /dev/hdc -hda DISK_IMAGE -boot d
> ------------------------------------

I used qemu's image making command to make HD images, which seems easier. 
Issue

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qemu-img create Win9x.img 500M
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for a 500MB qemu disk image.  The place I use dd was to copy an image of 
the Win98 install CD, like so

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dd if=/dev/hdc of=win98.iso
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Then, I ran qemu, specifying the Win9x.img file as the first hard drive 
and the win98.iso file as the CDROM, like so

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qemu -boot d -cdrom win98.iso -hda Win9x.img
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An alternate method of skinning the cat (or potato, if you're a 
vegetarian :) ).

James