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Date:      Thu, 11 Aug 2005 11:49:21 -0400
From:      Ean Kingston <ean@hedron.org>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: How to use Bochs?
Message-ID:  <200508111149.21319.ean@hedron.org>
In-Reply-To: <000801c59e86$a9110b80$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG>
References:  <000801c59e86$a9110b80$4801a8c0@ws-ew-3.W2KDEMIG>

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On August 11, 2005 11:09 am, Norbert Koch wrote:
> > I have installed Bochs successfully from ports.
> > At first, I planned to install Windows in Bochs, but soon I found that
> > Bochs needed to be configured before functioning properly.
> >
> > How to configure? I have no idea. I visited the homepage of Bochs just
> > now, but with no gains.

It has been ages since I used bochs but in short you need to create a hard 
disk image file and a bochsrc  configuration file. There are a bunch of hard 
disk image files (http://bochs.sourceforge.net/diskimages.html) available on 
the bochs home page and the bochs manual has an entire chapter on creating 
the configuration file 
(http://bochs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/topper.pl?name=New+Bochs+Documentation&url=http://bochs.sourceforge.net/doc/docbook).

Years ago I used it when I had to run an old windows (3.1) application that 
wouldn't work under wine. It worked well.

>
> I strongly suggest you to give qemu a try. It installs from ports
> including a bios and I already successfully booted e.g. the
> netbsd installation cd from in it under FreeBSD5.4.
>
> Norbert
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Ean Kingston

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