Re: [Etherboot-users] help - windows in linux

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karthikeyan nagalingam <kar...@ya...> writes:

> hi friend,
>           karthi, nice to meet you, can u give some
> solution for run a windows in dosemu. 
>           i tried by in /var/lib/dosemu/bootdir dir
> contents(dos files) are replaced by microsoft-windows
> operation system files, then i did the normal
> configuration like dos in /etc/dosemu.conf file, then
> i run by "dos" in command prompt, it gives the
> following error,
> 
> "XMS cache problem Registry Service may be inoperative
> this session
> Not enough extended memory avialable to run windows"
> 
> please tell me,what modification we have to do with
> dosemulator to run windows, please give some solution
> for the above probs, 

You currently cannot run windows (except 3.1) under dosemu.
dosemu cannot handle 32bit protected mode applications that need more
than dpmi support.  And any modern version of windows needs more than
that. 

Though what this has to do with etherboot I don't know.

Eric