From: "Jim C. Brown" <jbrown106@phreaker.net>
To: Mike Swanson <mikeonthecomputer@gmail.com>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] Boot Sequence
Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 20:34:09 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050126013409.GA12928@jbrown.mylinuxbox.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <79bf98480501251655d9c017e@mail.gmail.com>
On Tue, Jan 25, 2005 at 04:55:58PM -0800, Mike Swanson wrote:
> It would be useful with installing the older NTs (the ones that
> required floppy disks) and Windows 9x/Me (where you generally have to
> go through a few disks for partitioning and formatting and then
> booting into DOS and then running setup).
>
> I see advantages to this boot sequence aproach, not useless bloat.
>
>
Ah of course. Every OS i've ever installed has been via cdrom boot, which
required one reboot, so I've never needed this.
This option would be quite useful to have, agreed. You'd probably want an option
in the monitor to change the boot device also.
--
Infinite complexity begets infinite beauty.
Infinite precision begets infinite perfection.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-01-26 2:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-01-25 21:56 [Qemu-devel] Boot Sequence Lee
2005-01-25 22:24 ` Magnus Damm
2005-01-26 0:38 ` Jim C. Brown
2005-01-26 0:55 ` Mike Swanson
2005-01-26 1:34 ` Jim C. Brown [this message]
2005-01-26 10:13 ` Magnus Damm
2005-01-26 1:03 ` Johannes Schindelin
2005-01-26 6:17 ` Lee
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