Re: Windows under DosEmu
On Tue, 17 Mar 1998, Marcus Brinkmann wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 04:03:30PM -0600, Jeff Noxon wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 16, 1998 at 06:56:30PM -0300, Nelson Posse Lago wrote:
> > > The basic trick for win95 is to create a 64Mb swap partition for linux and
> > > configure DOSEMU to report 64Mb of expanded/extended memory to
> > > applications. Then allow full direct access to the HP partition where
> > > win95 lives in. To switch from win95 to another Virtual Console, *first*
> > > open a "dos prompt" under windows and then try CRTL-ALT-Fx ; this probably
> > > has to do with the video mode.
> >
> > Are you saying that Win95 will run under Dosemu? Really? Please? :)
Yes, that's exaclty what I'm saying.
> Sure. And Linux does infinite loops in 5 seconds.
Yep, everybody knows linux is really cool :-)))
> Oh, come on, guys. Win95 runs in ring 0, this is a no-no under Linux,
> because this is kernel mode.
Well, I thought so also, but I've seen reports of success from people that
wouldn't be spreading misinformation. I think win95 will accept to run
under DMPI, which dosemu emulates, and that's the "trick". There have been
reports of success and of problems, but quite a few people seem to have
done it, and they state it runs ok. They have also reported a few
filesystem wipe-outs before success too ;-) .
Now, the problem is that you have to give direct access to the win95
partition, which means if win95 goes south (I think this happens
sometimes ;-), linux is not able to "protect" that filesystem, and you
don't have permissions etc. The only advantage of doing this is not
having to reboot (which is cool enough).
See ya,
Nelson
lago@that.com.br
That's Internet!
It's all true, and you don't know nothing yet.
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