I lost windows, again! Yet I have another approach, instead of reinstalling XP, I wish to run 98 through linux, I've heard it's a little slower, but that's fine.
Does anyone here know Kubuntu well enough that they could help me with this (and a few other things?)
AIM; chris062689
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 Jun 1 2006, 2:40 pm
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i also recommend qemu with the kqemu accelerator (the later is a bit tricky to set up). and the faster the machine, the better. i've been able to run WinXP pro under qemu (still tinkering with the kqemu plugin thought, so it runs a bit slow).
the qemu website should help you out if you read carefully. keep in mind that you won't enjoy fullscreen/full-framerate video games in the first-person-shooter genre, it is an emulator and therefore inherently slower than native execution of code. but should run BYOND decently until the CrossOver Office people figure out what is wrong with Wine (still working on that a bit). | |
I haven't been able to get kqemu working in previous versions of Fedora Core 3 - I should try it with my nice, shiny new FC5 install.
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https://wiki.ubuntu.com//WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo
I actually still had that on a tab before this question was posted. It is a walkthough of installing Qemu with Kqemu on Ubuntu, I am sure most of the same steps apply to Kubuntu. | |
Scoobert wrote:
https://wiki.ubuntu.com//WindowsXPUnderQemuHowTo "Licensing Your XP licence only allows one install of XP at a time. Installing XP on a virtual machine while simultaneously having the same copy on another partition or machine will break that license. Jack-booted goons will haul you away in the middle of the night to a re-education camp. The next time your friends and family see you, you will be a gibbering mass of madness railing against Linus Torvalds and his communist plot to destroy Capitalism. Small children will avoid you in the street and neighbours will point at you and whisper. You have been warned." hahahahaha | |
What can you possibly be doing wrong to have all this XP loss? Do you hate it that much to break it so? Or do you not know how to repair your software?
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He might be like me and just love to tinker. I love changing settings, but I do know what not to touch, and how to make sure that I can touch something without ruining my system. I do agree that he is going though way too many XP installs, but if he does run a linux install with Qemu XP on it, he can make a backup of his XP install at any time. This will save him the troubles of reinstalling.
But the question stands: What are you doing to your computers? | |
Scooberts right, I love to tinker around with stuff ;)
I'm trying to get 98 back on my computer in the meantime, I have the installation disk, but whenever I go to format the HD inside the setup, it shows... Harddrive )*AFNHWER (weird random symbols) format, press y or n when I hit yes, it brings up this error "Failed to create partition." It's 180GBs and whenever I try to use cfdisk in puppy linux, it brings back this error: FATAL ERROR: Bad primary partition 3; Partition 3 begins after end-of-disk, press any key to quit. Is there anyway to fix this using fdisk? Or any other linux thing? (I really can't use Windows right now.) | |
Well, the problem with your 98 install is that the hard-drive is too large for the fat32 filesystem(unless I am mistaken). With linux it could be a million things. I would recommend trying to find a way to completely clear the harddrive, ignoring any other current formatting data, if that is possible and you have no info to lose.
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I really can't tell you, I would suggest googling for a while. You might also try to do an "automatic" install of a linux distro, one that doesn't prompt you for partitioning info. It might just delete the partition data without bothering with the contents. Also try different distros because they use different partition tools.
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You can probably get Qemu from adept if you have it. It is simple to run, just read the help page for tips and basic commands.
Works fine for me.