ajki

Sounded promising - but I can't get it working. Since it is something like a private user initiative and some years old that may be due to all sorts of incompatibilities to current hard/software. I think I'll try another approach and just buy a simple notebook and start the whole install from scratch.

above: "May I ask the reason you want to do 32 bit Windows 7 instead of 64 bit Windows 7?" Generally I'd like to "replicate" a specific time frame of a formerly used installation (around 2009-2012). Specifically I want to run "Virtual PC", the discontinued MS-VM, which NEEDS hardware access (that is: it can't be loaded in a VM under Win11). "Microsoft doesn't like to mix 64 bit and 32 bit in the same machine." That is certainly true. "Maybe booting the Window 7 system as an ISO would work" I have...

above: "May I ask the reason you want to do 32 bit Windows 7 instead of 64 bit Windows 7?" Generally I'd like to "replicate" a specific time frame of a formerly used installation (around 2009-2012). Specifically I want to run "Virtual PC", the discontinued MS-VM, which NEEDS hardware access (that is: it can't be loaded in a VM under Win11). "Microsoft doesn't like to mix 64 bit and 32 bit in the same machine." That is certainly true.

I'm aiming for a dual boot setting with the help from grub. The regular starting OS is Win11-64 (EFI-system). grub is installed and starts that partition as default by chainload. I'd like to have a Windows7 32-bit installation as option in grub. It is (as far as I understand the matter) not possible to install a 32-bit Windows (like Win7) on a 64-bit UEFI-system (as given with Win11 preinstalled). I have read other postings in this thread and was not able to identify any useable help. My understanding...

"... I was quite surprised... which appeared incorrect..." edit: The following paragraph...

ok ;-) - I've fired up OS/2 and had a look into the old inf file and rexxtry. So,...

"... I was quite surprised... which appeared incorrect..." Re.: TRL2 - this is not...

w32 - x2d bif