Re: [Xen-users] Has anyone installed from an XP Pro "upgrade" disk

[Jim Lynch <jim@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Petersson, Mats wrote:
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>> [mailto:xen-users-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Jim Lynch
>> Sent: 17 January 2007 11:34
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>> Subject: [Xen-users] Has anyone installed from an XP Pro 
>> "upgrade" disk
>>
>> I don't have a full install, just the upgrade.  I tried to insert the
>> windows 98 disk but it didn't find that, I tried to dd a working win98
>> partition to an image and use it as the image file, thinking XP might
>> read that file, but that didn't work. I also tried to install 
>> Win98 but
>> it failed because it tried to load a driver to read the cdrom and
>> couldn't. 
>>     
>
> I definitely haven't tried this, but I don't see why it shouldn't work
> (except perhaps Win98 is too similar to Win 3.1 and uses based segments
> rather more than WinXP/NT type OS's).
>
> A driver to read the CDROM should work just fine. 
>
> --
> Mats
>   
When the 98 cd boots, it starts in a dos window and attempts to load a
generic cdrom driver, but eventually fails with a message suggesting it
can't find a drive.  I don't know enough about how a disk is
"virtualized" to know if this generic driver will find anything.  Win98
came about before it was common to have BIOSs that knew about CDROM
drives, if I recall correctly.

Jim.

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