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James Miller wrote:
>
> if you were using unmounted partitions you would start 
> qemu with something like:
> ------------------------------------------------------------
> qemu -fda dos.img -hdc /dev/hda3 -hdd /dev/hda4
> ------------------------------------------------------------

Have you actually tried that?  It works for floppies
(eg -fda /dev/fd0), but I couldn't get it work with HDs 
(-hda /dev/hda) or with HD partitions (-hda /dev/hda1).

> Note that the -hdb fat:/hd is Steven's specification: 
> I never tried that,

It works for me.  I would actually prefer the format you
suggested above and I spent a lot of time trying to get
it to work before giving up and doing it via fat:/hd

Perhaps I missed something?  If your method actually
works, please tell me.  I would rather use that method.

> I'm not sure why he put -hdb rather than -hda, either.  

To stop qemu trying to boot from it.  I could have used 
the -boot parameter, but when I was typing in the message 
I wasn't sure of the syntax (and the computer that has
qemu was not turned on).

Cheers,
Steven