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Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 2000 installation problem
From: |
Leigh Dyer |
Subject: |
Re: [Qemu-devel] Windows 2000 installation problem |
Date: |
Tue, 04 May 2004 13:52:25 +1000 |
On Mon, 2004-05-03 at 20:08 -0700, Frederick Earl Gray wrote:
> Hi, all,
>
> [First of all, let me say that I've tried to send this message a number
> of times in my usual way, and it has been continuously deferred with the
> message "451 Could not complete sender verify callout"...perhaps an overly
> aggressive spam filter? I'm trying again through the University's webmail
> system...we'll see what happens.]
>
> I have been trying to install Win2K Pro on qemu (running under Debian
> "testing"
> on x86). The installation almost makes it through, but not quite. At the
> point where you can select optional Windows components, it shows 0.0 MB
> available disk space and simply won't let you proceed, no matter which
> components you select. A screenshot is at
> http://kaon.physics.berkeley.edu/~fegray/disk-full.png
>
> I've tried 1.5 GB and 2 GB partitions, and I've tried both today's CVS
> and the 0.5.3 release. (In the latter, I commented out the initialization of
> the SB16 sound card and I applied Renzo Davoli's NE2000 patch and Mark
> Jonckheere's patch to suppress dummy mouse events.) I tried both FAT and NTFS
> partition types. Always the same results.
>
I've seen this problem as well - the last time was with a 2000Mb image
that I created using bximage. I tried another install on the same
machine, using dd to create a 3000Mb blank file to use as the disk
image, and that worked. The bximage image was essentially empty (ie:
used no space on disk until i started installing to it), whereas the dd
image was filled with zeros. I'm not sure why this would make any
difference though.
Just to confuse things, I tried using a 2000Mb bximage on another
machine, and Win2k installed without problems. It's not really fast
enough to be genuinely usable on my P3-800 at work, but on my Athlon XP
2200+ at home it's quick enough for basic tasks.
Thanks
Leigh
> I gather that many of you have been successful in installing Win2K --
> has anyone else run into this problem? Any suggestions for me? At the
> moment I'm using an evaluation copy of vmWare to run some electronics CAD
> programs (my only use for Windows), but that runs out in a few weeks, and it
> sounds like qemu is close to being ready for prime time if I can just get
> past this one screen...
>
> Thanks very much for your help,
>
> -- Fred
>
> -- Fred Gray / Visiting Postdoctoral Researcher --
> -- Department of Physics / University of California, Berkeley --
> -- address@hidden / phone 510-642-4057 / fax 510-642-9811 --
>
>
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