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<META NAME="copyright" CONTENT="Copyright 2001 by MandrakeSoft S.A.">
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<META NAME="Author" CONTENT="Kevin Lawton">
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<TITLE>Installing WinNT in bochs</TITLE>
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<CENTER><H1>Installing WinNT 4.0 in bochs</H1></CENTER>
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Here's the quick and dirty on installing WinNT 4.0 in bochs.
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For reference, the version I installed was WinNT 4.0 Build 1381
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on an internal version of bochs-991026a+.
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<p>
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There are a couple approaches you could take. You could
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copy contents from the CDROM distro to a hard disk image file
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and then install from there. I wanted to test the
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CDROM emulation in bochs, so I installed directly from
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the WinNT CD with no extra copy needed. These instructions
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are from a corresponding install.
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<p>
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First, you need to configure bochs with CDROM emulation.
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You need this even if you are not going to use the direct
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CDROM emulation, otherwise NT won't recognize the hard
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disk emulation (legacy IDE controller). Thanks to Chris
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Smith for pointing this out as well as some additional
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hacks for booting WinNT.
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<pre>
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unix> ./configure --enable-cdrom ...
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</pre>
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Next, you need to create a hard disk image file big enough
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to install WinNT. I made one using the following command.
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Refer to
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<A HREF="install.html#Creating a hard disk image file">
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Creating a hard disk image file</A>
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for more on creating disk image files.
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<pre>
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unix> dd if=/dev/zero of=../483M.NT40 bs=512 count=967680
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</pre>
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You will need to give bochs a description of the geometry
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of your disk drive in .bochsrc. Following was my entry.
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While you're editing .bochsrc, uncomment or add the cdromd
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directive which tells bochs to use your workstation's CDROM drive
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and the CD that is in it.
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diskc: file=../483M.NT40, cyl=1024, heads=15, spt=63
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cdromd: dev=/dev/cdrom, status=inserted
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</pre>
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OK, you will need a boot floppy to kick things off, so that
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from DOS you have access to the CDROM to run the
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install program. Make a DOS boot floppy with FORMAT and
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FDISK on it. You will also need a driver for the CDROM.
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Use one for a standard IDE CDROM. For example, you can
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download one from
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<a href="http://www.driverzone.com/drivers/atapi/">The Driver Zone</a>
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in atapi.zip, called GSCDROM.SYS. I put the driver and MSCDEX.EXE
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all on the boot floppy.
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<p>
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I used a CONFIG.SYS and AUTOEXEC.BAT that look like the following.
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Don't forget if you're editing in Unix land, use the '-t' option
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to mcopy to transfer text files to/from Unix and your image file.
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[config.sys]
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DOS=HIGH
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FILES=30
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LASTDRIVE=Z
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DEVICE=a:\GSCDROM.SYS /D:MSCD000 /v
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</pre>
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<pre>
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[autoexec.bat]
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@ECHO OFF
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PROMPT $p$g
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\MSCDEX /D:MSCD000 /L:D
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</pre>
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At this point you're all set to begin the installation. Fire
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up bochs:
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<pre>
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unix> bochs boot:a
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</pre>
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Then fire up the WinNT install program:
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A:> d:\i386\winnt /b /s:d:\i386
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</pre>
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This page not finished yet. I wanted to get this release
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to people who really needed the changes. The next release
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should have better help on installing NT4.0. Here are
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some tips though, that may help.
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<ul>
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<li>Every time NT reboots the machine, bochs panics out. This
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is OK.
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<li>Tell WinNT not to generate an emergency boot disk for now.
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Otherwise it will hit the floppy Format Track command which is
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not implemented yet. (I may do that next)
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<li>After you've done the intial part where data is transferred
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from the CDROM to the hard disk image file and the machine
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is rebooted (bochs panics out), change the cdromd directive
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in .bochsrc from 'status=inserted' to 'status=ejected' before
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firing up bochs again. Otherwise NT will use a CDROM
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command which is not implemented fully yet.
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<li>I told NT not to install a driver for any mouse, and specificially
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to use standard VGA in the configuration phase. Don't know if
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this was necessary.
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</ul>
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I'm going to give the install another spin after I fix some other
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things and rehash this page.
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