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[Ron Clarke <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Wed, 26 Apr 2006 17:05:45 -0700
"David Moberg" <davidjmoberg AT gmail.com> wrote:
 
> 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
> -------------------------------

   I got all those, and they installed withut a whimper.  :)

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

 Already got it.

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

   Got that too.   It also installed without complaint, and seemed to find 
all its luggage.

> 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
> ---------------------

   Ah !  I need an OS image file.  :(

 
> (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),

   How does that work ?  The man for DD wasn't very clear about generating an 
image file.

> and you have the Windows 98 CD in a CD-ROM drive, you can use
> something like this:

   I have a Win95 CD (no longer wanted by my Windowing wife).
 
> ------------------------------------
> qemu -cdrom /dev/hdc -hda DISK_IMAGE -boot d
> ------------------------------------
> 
> This will boot from the Windows 98 setup CD if it is in /dev/hdc.

    Will it then be able to install extra programs to the image file ?    
Such as the Windows software for this flatbed parallel-port scanner ?

   I am hoping for a hand-holding, step-by-step guide here folks.     :)

Regards,
         Ron

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Ron Clarke 
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