From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTAip-0003Hl-1I for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:06:35 -0500 Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.33) id 1CTAio-0003HZ-Jy for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:06:34 -0500 Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.33) id 1CTAio-0003HW-Hp for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 22:06:34 -0500 Received: from [64.233.170.195] (helo=rproxy.gmail.com) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1CTAZv-0002iL-91 for qemu-devel@nongnu.org; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:57:23 -0500 Received: by rproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id y7so305718rne for ; Sat, 13 Nov 2004 18:57:20 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Sat, 13 Nov 2004 21:57:19 -0500 From: Brett Bonfield In-Reply-To: <-2034955394811227980@unknownmsgid> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable References: <-2034955394811227980@unknownmsgid> Subject: [Qemu-devel] Re: Using Qemu to install Linux in a Windows XP Reply-To: Brett Bonfield , 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 > From: Ronald >=20 > Le Fri, 12 Nov 2004 22:18:59 -0500, Brett Bonfield a =E9crit : >=20 > >> Date: Fri, 12 Nov 2004 20:01:31 -0300 From: Andr? Braga > >> > > > > > > > >> > QemuInstall-0.6.0 (installed to C:\Program Files\Qemu): dd > >> > if=3DSimplyMEPIS-2004.04.iso of=3DMEPIS.img bs=3D1k seek=3D3071999 c= ount=3D1 < > >> > this created the image > > >> > qemu -hda hd.img -cdrom SimplyMEPIS-2004.04.iso -boot d -user-net < > >> > this didn't seem to do anything > > >> > >> Try: > >> qemu -L . -hda hd.img -cdrom SimplyMEPIS-2004.04.iso -boot d -user-net > > > > I created the hd.img with dd for Win32, then typed the command directly > > above. > > > > With QemuInstall-20041111 I get: > > > > qemu: could not load PC bios './bios.bin' > > >=20 > That's because bioses are now in a separate directory (called bios), the > dot which follow -L means current directory, you must pass -L .\bios with > recent installer (or -L "C:\Program Files\Qemu\bios"). It worked! Thank you! The command I ended up sending was: qemu -L .\bios -hda hd.img -cdrom SimplyMEPIS-2004.04.iso -boot d -user-net -m 128 -enable-audio -localtime For MEPIS, at least on my Win XP Pro system, neither the -enable-audio nor -localtime seem to be working. The time is still off and when the system loads I get the following message: - - - X informational - artsmessage Sound server information message: Error while initializing the sound driver: device /dev/dsp can't ve opened (No such device) The sound server will continue, using the null output device. - - -=20 Finally, does anyone know how safe it is to use MEPIS Installation Center to install MEPIS onto my system. I do not want to end up formatting my whole hard drive -- I want to be sure that Mepis only installs itself into the 3GB I've allocated for it. In the Installation Center I select Installation Utilities > Install MEPIS on Hard Drive. It believe I should select the options to Use disk: hda Auto-install using entire disk Is there any way to know that for MEPIS the entire disk is the 3GB hda and not my whole hard drive, and that the rest of my hard drive won't be harmed?