From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CeU8K-0007vm-PY for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:03:40 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CeU8J-0007vC-SB for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:03:40 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CeU8J-0007uZ-Ag for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 03:03:39 -0500 Received: from [193.0.96.2] (helo=duch.mimuw.edu.pl) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (TLSv1:DES-CBC3-SHA:168) (Exim 4.34) id 1CeTxp-0005d3-0v for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Wed, 15 Dec 2004 02:52:49 -0500 References: <41BF53FA.4010307@verbmail.com> From: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl (=?iso-8859-2?q?Janusz_S._Bie=F1?=) Date: 15 Dec 2004 07:50:56 +0100 In-Reply-To: <41BF53FA.4010307@verbmail.com> Message-ID: <87brcwuka7.fsf@mimuw.edu.pl> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Windows 2000 disk full problem during install... Reply-To: jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl, qemu-devel@nongnu.org List-Id: qemu-devel.nongnu.org List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , To: qemu-devel@nongnu.org On Tue, 14 Dec 2004 Leo Whitman wrote: [...] > I'm willing to keep investigating the problem, but was wondering if > any others had ideas in the meantime. I will be glad to help by making some tests. I am a novice user of QEMU, my main purpose is to use under Debian a MS Windows commercial dictionary. I made about 10 attempts to install Windows 2000 under Knoppix-based Debian, experimenting also with different formats of disk images. My experiments were rather chaotic, but I was totally confused by the fact the the installation process behaved in a semi-random way. Once I got very far in the installation which failed in a definitely different way then other attempts. I am sorry to say that the following passage at http://fabrice.bellard.free.fr/qemu/qemu-doc.html 3.11.2.3 Windows 2000 disk full problems Currently (release 0.6.0) QEMU has a bug which gives a disk full error during installation of some releases of Windows 2000. The workaround is to stop QEMU as soon as you notice that your disk image size is growing too fast (monitor it with ls -ls). Then relaunch QEMU to continue the installation. If you still experience the problem, relaunch QEMU again. is not explicit enough for a novice like me (especially because I know very little about MS Windows, before OpenOffice I used it to print Word files, now I don't use it at all). In particular I don't know how to avoid restarting Windows installation from the very beginning after the relaunch of QEMU. At the moment I have a usable dictionary under Debian Sarge qemu 0.6.0.dfsg.2-1, but it is not the dictionary I really want. One of the problems I encountered is described at http://www.dad-answers.com/qemu-forum/viewtopic.php?t=145&sid=a595248431ff0e2f0987b001cbd2bf4c but this is of course another thread. Best regard Janusz -- , dr hab. Janusz S. Bien, prof. UW - Uniwersytet Warszawski (Katedra Lingwistyki Formalnej) Prof. Janusz S. Bien - Warsaw Uniwersity (Chair of Formal Linguistics) jsbien@mimuw.edu.pl, jsbien@uw.edu.pl, http://www.mimuw.edu.pl/~jsbien/, http://www.klf.uw.edu.pl