Re: dosemu

[Nils O. F. <nil...@mi...>]

Onsdag 8. juli 2009, skrev Mario Gzuk:
> Hi,
> we also had problems with the disk geometry which leads into a "blinking
> coursor". This effect is only if you use the hole hard disk in one
> partition, I have try to find out why. But a simple solution was faster
> then my search. So we create the FAT/NTFS partition 100MB smaller than
> the full size. The ExtendOEMPartition=yes in the answer file will extend
> the partition to the maximum during the installation.

Good info!
I always create a small as possible partition and set 
ExtendOEMPartition=yes
The result is more or less the same.

> With the file:
> https://unattended-gui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/unattended-gui/z/etc/ini
>t/profiles/unattended-gui/01install which was the base for the nt5 install
> script you can:
> - install win NT/XP/W2K/W2K3/Vista/Windows 7
> - install NT/XP/W2K/W2K3 on a fat or ntfs partition without the 4GB
> limitation
> - install via multicast
> - install compressed installation files
> - ....
> See more here:
> http://unattended-gui.sourceforge.net/www/index.php?loadsub=quwiki&func=wik
>i&type=index&show=25#2.

Woha, I need time to digest all this :-)
>
> You can also strip of the main parts of the Makefile from our project to
> bring up your Makefile to the newest versions. I have used the Makefile
> from unattended to build the boot stuff for unattended-gui. So its
> nearly the same. (without the perl stuff)
> https://unattended-gui.svn.sourceforge.net/svnroot/unattended-gui/bootcd/Ma
>kefile See also:
> http://unattended-gui.sourceforge.net/www/index.php?loadsub=quwiki&func=wik
>i&type=index&show=4
>
> Maybe we can also do some "cooperation" ;) with the boot environment...

Yes, we have the same target here, and the same problems.
A cooperation here would be great.

>
> For all those people who have problems to build the boot stuff. There
> is  a quite simple solution to build it on windows (cygwin) and nearly
> all linux distributions:
> http://unattended-gui.sourceforge.net/www/index.php?loadsub=quwiki&func=wik
>i&type=index&show=4#4.
>
> See here 4.1, 4.2 and 4.3
>
>
> If you have questions feel free to ask.


How do you solve partition settings?
I guess the user define them somewhere,
and linuxboot read them and executes.
So you must have a way to transfer the from the user into
the linuxboot.

Im asking because we still use a fdisk to parted command translation.
I had to look into that today, .. what a pain in the ass..


mvh
Nils Olav