[ale] Qemu experiences (or.....wow!)

[Courtney Thomas]

Keith,

Thank you for all the latest !

I've been tryin' to unhinge from MS for years, so all I have is really 
old stuff, i.e. Win95/NT4.0  :-(     i.e. no 98, XP, 2000, etc....

Anyway, I'll file your info away in case all else fails.

Cordially,

Courtney



Keith R. Watson wrote:

> At 09:58 3/4/2005 -0600, you wrote:
> 
>> >From Jay Loden:
>> <snipped>
>>
>> >There's also a Windows Live CD out there, and at least one site with
>> >instructions on how to make a Windows live CD that you can run apps 
>> off of.
>> >If you're really against getting Windows installed, you could 
>> probably create
>> >one of those to run the app from.
>>
>> The one I knew about was based on Win98 but I found this and it looks 
>> interesting:
>>
>>   URL  = "http://www.pro-networks.org/forum/about48896.html"
>>   Title = "Windows XP Live CD"
>>   Snippet = "... PostPosted: Sat Feb 19, 2005 4:19 pm Post subject: 
>> Windows XP Live CD ...  idea how to do this, but with the help on the 
>> page I built the Win XP Live CD ..."
>>
>> (unfortunately I can't verify anything right now)
> 
> 
> The page above is is about BartPE.
> 
> http://www.nu2.nu/pebuilder/
> 
> BartPE is a utility for creating a bootable Windows XP/2003 CD. I have 
> been creating custom versions of BartPE boot disks for some time. We use 
> it for Ghosting windows servers, workstations, and laptops across 
> subnets. Ghost Server can create boot floppies that will work across 
> subnets but only if you have a Wins server and DHCP. Also Ghost floppies 
> can only have one network driver and there aren't any DOS drivers for 
> some of the server raid arrays and laptop network adapters.
> 
> With BartPE I was able to add drivers for network and raid controllers 
> used in all our workstations, servers, and laptops. Now we can Ghost all 
> our machines across subnets or to USB drives using one boot CD, and I 
> don't need Wins. Whooo Hooo, sorry, it's just that I hate Wins.
> 
> It should be possible to create a BartPE CD with the BIOS update 
> software installed. If the BIOS update utility is just an executable and 
> doesn't require installation then it's even easier. This would allow 
> booting from CD and flashing the motherboard BIOS Without having to 
> install Windows on your Linux box.
> 
> The only downside is that the BartPE utility will only run under Windows 
> 2000, XP, or 2003.
> 
> your friendly neighborhood digital mercenary,
> keith
> 
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> Keith R. Watson                        GTRI/ISD
> Systems Support Specialist III         Georgia Tech Research Institute
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