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[James Miller <jamtat AT mailsnare.net>]

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> Could Steven or someone post the relevant information about where to get
> the binary and what other libraries are needed with it, and how to use it
> with FreeDOS and Win98?  It is scattered among many postings.  Also the

Here's David's summary:

> Begin From davidjmoberg Wed Apr 26 19:05:56 2006

sindi keesan wrote:

[qemu is the 'binary' referred to]

> Could Steven or someone post the relevant information about where to get
> the binary and what other libraries are needed with it, and how to use it
> with FreeDOS and Win98?  It is scattered among many postings.  Also the
> BL3 image suited for use with qemu - or can we use the DOS-loop fs.img
> plus any bzimage?  Someone please summarize.

Here is the original post:

https://lists.ibiblio.org/sympa/arc/baslinux/2006-April/010133.html

To restate the directions, you need these files from Slackware 9.0:

-------------------------------
l/glibc-solibs-2.3.1-i386-3.tgz
l/zlib-1.1.4-i386-3.tgz
l/sdl-1.2.5-i386-1.tgz
l/esound-0.2.29-i386-1.tgz
l/arts-1.1-i386-2.tgz
l/audiofile-0.2.3-i386-3.tgz
-------------------------------

In addition, you need libXext. Get it from Steven's BL3 icewm.tgz
package if you don't already have it.

The QEMU binary is available from its website:
<http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/>. I recommend the latest release
(0.8.0).

Install all 8 of these packages in BL3 with the 'pkg' command, then
start up X and execute qemu from an rxvt. For example, if you have a
DOS boot disk image:

---------------------
qemu -fda FreeDOS.img
---------------------

(This should also work with my USB camera floppy image, although I
haven't tested this yet.)

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
------------------------------------

This will boot from the Windows 98 setup CD if it is in /dev/hdc.

To use James'  BL3.4 QEMU image after you unzip it (available from his
site or the BL site):

------------------------
qemu -hda BL3.4-qemu.img
------------------------

David

> End From davidjmoberg Wed Apr 26 19:05:56 2006

And here's my addendum on the DOS-loop plus bzimage question:

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006, sindi keesan wrote:

> BL3 image suited for use with qemu - or can we use the DOS-loop fs.img
> plus any bzimage?  Someone please summarize.

It seems you can use any bzimage to boot FS.IMG using qemu, yes.  qemu 
doesn't seem to want to handle zimages, but it will boot bzimages for some 
reason.  To do this, you need to use the -kernel option when invoking 
qemu, giving it the path to and name of the bzimage you want to boot.  It 
seems you also need to use the -append option in concert with this, 
directing the kernel to the root filesystem, and it stipulated as rw. 
So, something like the following:

---------------------------------------------------------------
qemu -kernel /path/to/bzimage -append "root=/dev/hda rw" -hda 
/path/to/FS.IMG
---------------------------------------------------------------

(question: how come /dev/hda is specified rather than /dev/hda1?).  Of 
course you'll understand that just any old bzimage may not be able to find 
its modules booting FS.IMG this way: only a 2.2.26 kernel or one that has 
all necessary modules already compiled in is going to run happily in 
FS.IMG.

Ok.  I think everything relevant may be in one place now.

James