- move Win LE install tips from misc.txt fo user.dbk
- Features : - add enhanced bios - add Multiple ATA channels - fix harddrive and cdrom - add info about keyoard mapping - add link to tuntap config - add PCI - add Copy and Paste - add reference to openprojects.net IRC channel - bochsrc : - add optromimage[1-4] paragraph - add example of LGPL vgabios - add ata[0-3] paragraph - add ataX-[master|slave] paragraph - change boot: options - add logprefix: paragraph - complete ne2k paragraph - add user_shortcut: paragraph - Tips and techniques - convert internal debugger doc from html - add Bios Tips section (to be completed) - expand guest os chapter - add WinME info from misc.txt - add titles of other doc to be included
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$Id: misc.txt,v 1.12 2002-11-02 16:51:18 ndavidg Exp $
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$Id: misc.txt,v 1.13 2002-11-03 23:24:41 cbothamy Exp $
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Testing testing....
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This is a temporary place to paste in stuff that should go into the docs one
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day. When it is transferred into docbook, let's remove it from misc.txt.
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Date: Sun, 21 Oct 2001 02:24:22 -0700 (PDT)
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From: Sancho Roberto <rsanchov@yahoo.com>
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To: bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: [Bochs-developers] WinMe install tips
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Instalation of WinMe
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1) Install Win98
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My Windows Me is an update version, that is, it upgrades over Win98.
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So the first think I have to do is to install on a HD image a
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Win98
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It is not necessary to do the full install. What I've done is
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- Create a HD image (Win98.img) with 500MB
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- Format It, install MSDOS6 on it so I can boot from c
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- Make a W98 directory.
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- Copy using mtools the instalation directory from the original
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Win98 CD
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- Run bochs
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- run the setup program into the W98 directory
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- Select WIN98 as Windows directory. All other setup options
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are left by default.
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- I don't care about HW detection, etc. Just uncompressing
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the cab files to the WIN98 directory es enought for WinMe.
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(Note that Win98 is not functional and cannot boot)
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2) Copy the WinMe install files to the HD
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In Win98.img, with mtools, I create a directory called WinMe.
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Again, I copy the contents of the Win9x directory from the original
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WinMe CD. Note that I copy the CD to my HD, and then with mtools
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from my HD to win98.img. I also delete then W98 directory.
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3) Create WinMe.img
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Now, I created another blank HD called WinMe.img with 500MB.
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I format it and install MSDOS6 so I an boot using it.
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4) Prepare the instalation Bochs
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I edit the bochsrc.txt file so
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- WinMe.img is diskc
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- Win98.img is diskd
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5) Running setup
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I start bochs: the C: drive is empty (it only contains the
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MSDOS6 command.com, IO.SYS, etc). The D: drive has:
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D:\W98 - The "installed" Windows 98
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D:\WINME - Windows Me setup files
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I go to the WINME directory and run:
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SETUP xxxx
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The description of the setup options can be found in the Microsoft Knowledge page as
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Q186111 - Description of the Windows 95, Windows 98, and Windows Me Setup Switches
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I've done a lot of trials with this setup options until I finally
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found a correct way to finnish the installation. These are the setup
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options I used. I've copied a brief description (from the KB) and added
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my comments.
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/m - bypass the playing of the Setup sound (.wav) files.
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Not necessary as my Bochs has no sound device activated
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/nf - Do not prompt to remove the floppy disk from the drive
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Maybe not necessary. Just in case
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/nh - This switch bypasses running the Hwinfo.exe program at 0
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percent files and RunOnce.
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If not present, freezes on HW detection
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/ie - This switch bypasses the Windows 98 Startup Disk wizard screens.
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To speed things up - I allways can create a Statup disk latter
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/iv - This switch bypasses displaying the Setup screens during
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an upgrade within Windows.
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To speed things up
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/c - This switch bypasses running SMARTDrive.
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Maybe not necessary. Just in case
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/im - Causes setup to ignore the conventional memory check.
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Maybe not necessary. Just in case
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/is - This switch causes Setup not to run ScanDisk.
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Very important as SCANDISK freezed bochs
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/iq - If you use the /is switch to bypass ScanDisk or if ScanDisk
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does not complete successfully, Setup checks your drive for cross-linked files.
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The /iq switch prevents Setup from doing this.
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Very important. If not used, Setup stop the installation
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with a message "error found in C:, run scandisk and setup again"
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(or something like this). Of course, there is no errors in C:
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because is an empty, just formatted disk, but the WinMe setup
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thinks so. The only way to progress from this point is
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with this switch
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/it - This switch bypasses checking for the presence of "dirty" or "deadly" terminate-and-stay-resident programs (TSRs) that are known to cause problems with Windows Setup.
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Maybe not necessary. Just in case
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/p b;g=3
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b: This switch enables Prompt Before mode. It prompts
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you before a detection module is called so that you can
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step through each detection module manually and decide
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if you want to skip it.
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Very important. See bellow
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g: This switch controls how verbose the built-in progress bar is
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There is another main issue that must be handled
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WinMe requires a 150Mhz computer as a minimum. If you try to run
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the WinMe setup, you will receive a message telling you so, and the
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installation will stop.
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The only way I found to solve this problem is to change the IPS
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value in bochsrc.txt. I raised the IPS value until setup stop
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complaining. In my machine (P3 @ 450MHz), I achieved this with
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ips: 500000000
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This this IPS value, the keyboard and mouse are updated each
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100 seconds. This makes very dificult to type the CD-KEY numbers,
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select type of instalation, etc.
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One way to solve this is to lower the vga_update_interval and
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the keyboard_serial_delay. I lower the value until
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- I have a minimum respons from keyboard and mouse (say
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1 second delay between keypress/mousemove and the
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screen update)
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- I still pass the 150 Mhz check
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The values I used are
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vga_update_interval: 10000
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keyboard_serial_delay: 200
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They may be diferent for other computers.
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Note that bochs, on starting up complains about vga_update_interval
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with the message "bochsrc.txt: vga_update_interval not big enough!":
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ignore it.
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6) Follow the Windows Me setup instruction ...
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Just a warning: it is very, very, very, *VERY* (very) slow ...
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Two days running non stop on my PC.
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Don't wait ... enjoy yourself during the process ... you that the time.
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7) Hardware nightmare
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At a given moment, you are prompted to detect the hardware.
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There is a prompt for each type of device: Bus, keyboard, mouse,
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HD, CDROM, etc.
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Say NO to everything.
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If you say YES, sometimes setup will detect your HW, but normaly
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it will crash with GPF on COMMCTRL.DLL (setup crash, but bochs
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still alive. Nice!).
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If you sat CANCEL, setup will stay in this screen forever (ok, ok,
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I have just wait 10 hours).
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8) Configuring
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Setup will configure you PC. You can set your timezone, etc.
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Then Setup will create the Statup menu icons. Here, time to time,
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you will get a GPF in PIFMGR.DLL. Just press Ok and continue.
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Again this procedure is very very very very very very slow.
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Worse of all, you cannot leave it running by night. You must
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press Ok a lot of times to clean the GPF.
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9) Restart.
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At last, setup will restart the PC. Exit Bochs. I recomend to make
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a copy of WinMe.img just to save all your time.
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10) Run bochs again
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Setup will do some stuff ... just wait
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After a while, the Start button appearch on the lower left corner
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of the screen!
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Just for safe, I executed within WinMe msconfig.exe, and in the
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advanced tab set the Disk Compatibility mode". Also, I've turned
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of the menu and windows animations, to speed thinks up a bit. Also
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it may be a good idea to turn off scandisk on setup.
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Do not forget to exit from Windows with the Shutdown menu ...
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11) That's all
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Now you can comment out the diskd line in the bochsrc.txt. WinMe.img
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contains a working WinMe.
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NOTE: if you lower the IPS, WinMe will be unstable ... surelly
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a timing issue. But even if IPS is high, lowering
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vga_update_interval and keyboard_serial_delay will help
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on getting an acceptable usability.
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DO not forget to use your Pentium 10 at 500 GHz to get a
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good speed within Windows.
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Some bugs i've found
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- MSDOS Scandisk freeze
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- Hw detection is very problematic
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- If bochs is visible when it switchs from text mode to grafic mode,
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the size of the window is correct. But if Bochs is minimized when
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doing so, the size of the Bochs window is incorrect. It does not
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take into account the height of the top banner (the one with the
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disk icons, mouse, snapshot, etc), so the botton of the screen
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is clipped.
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- Dont expect to run WinMe at full speed unless you use your Pentium10 at 1500 GHz
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- (not a bug, but a comment) The splash screen when booting/shutdown
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WinMe is double height. I personally prefer to see the full image
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as it was time ago.
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