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> I discouvered QEMU today and I think it is an amazing program.

fully agreed :)

> Just to be sure and on the safe site:
>
> Will the command "qemu -hda win98se.img -boot d -user-net" do as I think
it > will do: .. boot from my cdrom device so I can install windows from
it to
> the win98se.img file?

i never had success with booting from the real cdrom, but creating an
iso-file
(using dd) and booting from that (-cdrom file.iso) did the trick

see also : http://www.qemu.org/qemu-doc.html#SEC10