From owner-freebsd-emulation Sat May 19 9:29:15 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (fac13.ds.psu.edu [146.186.61.98]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A8C5137B422 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 09:29:12 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Received: from fac13.ds.psu.edu (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by fac13.ds.psu.edu (8.11.3/8.11.3) with ESMTP id f4JGTE901415 for ; Sat, 19 May 2001 12:29:14 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from hawk@fac13.ds.psu.edu) Message-Id: <200105191629.f4JGTE901415@fac13.ds.psu.edu> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.3.1 01/18/2001 with nmh-1.0.4 To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: successful installation of win98se on a thinkpad A21p (sort of) From: "Richard E. Hawkins" Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Sat, 19 May 2001 12:29:14 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org It took craftiness, but I finally got it going--but I had to cheat. The win98 that comes with the machine won't execute under the vmware bios, except in safe mode. THe general win98 cd we have (not from ibm; the penn state cut) won't boot within vmware. THe first boot disk we had made hung the virtual machine when trying to load the cd driver. What I had to do was install the 2.0.4-1142.tar.gz release candidate on a linux partition, in which I'd installed a 2.4.4 kernel. (For the record, installation in FreeBSD is *much* easier than in Debian . . . go figure . . .). Within linux and with 2.0.4, I was able to boot from a duplicate of the win98 boot floppy supplied by microsoft (it wouldn't work with 2.0.3 under freebsd; simular hanging over the cd). I did the installation and installation of vmware tools under linux. Rebooting into FreeBSD, I copied the win98 directory back to the bsd home directory, and everything runs well. In fact, the sound works better than it did in linux, wherein it was choppy. hawk, moving on to networking -- Prof. Richard E. Hawkins, Esq. /"\ ASCII ribbon campaign dochawk@psu.edu Smeal 178 (814) 375-4700 \ / against HTML mail These opinions will not be those of X and postings Penn State until it pays my retainer. / \ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message