My old W98SE box has died of a rough handling, but the HDD has survived the crash. For continuity of service and fun, I have chosen to try to use QEMU, with SeaBIOS. As a validation try, I have created an image of FreeDOS1.1 without any problem. Next I booted an image of the HDD. All is going fine, but the MS-DOS of W98SE is not able to access the installation CD of W98SE needed to adjust to the new hardware configuration because of the absence of a proper driver. SeaBIOS is able to access a CD drive. So my question is: Do you know if there exist some MS-DOS W98SE CD driver using the SeaBIOS CD service ?
Configuration: Asrock H77M+G840+8Go, Gentoo/Linux stable amd64 (x86_64) Gnome qemu-kvm-1.0.1
I don't know.
http://bootdisk.com/ http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MSCDEX
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:30 PM, nap caracol@neuf.fr wrote:
My old W98SE box has died of a rough handling, but the HDD has survived the crash. For continuity of service and fun, I have chosen to try to use QEMU, with SeaBIOS. As a validation try, I have created an image of FreeDOS1.1 without any problem. Next I booted an image of the HDD. All is going fine, but the MS-DOS of W98SE is not able to access the installation CD of W98SE needed to adjust to the new hardware configuration because of the absence of a proper driver. SeaBIOS is able to access a CD drive. So my question is: Do you know if there exist some MS-DOS W98SE CD driver using the SeaBIOS CD service ?
Configuration: Asrock H77Mᯎ㓻솨, Gentoo/Linux stable amd64 (x86_64) Gnome qemu-kvm-1.0.1
SeaBIOS mailing list SeaBIOS@seabios.org http://www.seabios.org/mailman/listinfo/seabios
On Tue, May 22, 2012 at 11:30:54PM +0200, nap wrote:
My old W98SE box has died of a rough handling, but the HDD has survived the crash. For continuity of service and fun, I have chosen to try to use QEMU, with SeaBIOS. As a validation try, I have created an image of FreeDOS1.1 without any problem. Next I booted an image of the HDD. All is going fine, but the MS-DOS of W98SE is not able to access the installation CD of W98SE needed to adjust to the new hardware configuration because of the absence of a proper driver. SeaBIOS is able to access a CD drive. So my question is: Do you know if there exist some MS-DOS W98SE CD driver using the SeaBIOS CD service ?
Configuration: Asrock H77M+G840+8Go, Gentoo/Linux stable amd64 (x86_64) Gnome qemu-kvm-1.0.1
I'm not that familiar with DOS drivers. You could try asking on the freedos mailing list. You could also try running seabios with "-chardev stdio,id=seabios -device isa-debugcon,iobase=0x402,chardev=seabios" and see if any interesting debug messages come up. Finally, one could recompile seabios with higher debug levels to try and track down which calls aren't working (if you suspect msdos should be seeing the cdrom).
-Kevin
Hello,
I can recommend a universal CDROM driver: VIDE-CDD.SYS 2.14 10:48:22 02/17/98, haven't tried newer found version 2.15 yet.
Look for VIDE-CDD.SYS: http://www.benq.co.uk/support/downloads/downloads.cfm/dtype/D/page/downloads... ftp://217.21.255.101/cd-rom/drivers/apicd214.exe ftp://ftp.bluefeathertech.com/computing/pccbbs/aptiva/VIDE-CDD.SYS http://www.mdgx.com/files/VIDE-CDD.ZIP http://reimagery.com/fsfd/bin/2001_archive_DOS_rlg/apicd214.exe
Also a good page: http://www.cybercomm.nl/~one2one/s2.html
Also a universal MSCDEX: SHCDEX 3.03 (SHCDX33E.COM), I'm using 3.03E http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/shsucdx.html http://johnson.tmfc.net/dos/file/shcdx33e.zip
And to complete the chain: As a mouse driver I recommend: Cutemouse v1.9.1 alpha 1 (latest version makes problems!!) http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/ http://cutemouse.sourceforge.net/download/cutemouse191.zip
Ramdisk: http://sourceforge.net/projects/srdisk/
All works well with QEMU/QEMU-KVM.
If you use other usefull programs please let us know them.
Hope it helps :-)
Ciao, Gerhard
On 22.05.2012 23:30, nap wrote:
My old W98SE box has died of a rough handling, but the HDD has survived the crash. For continuity of service and fun, I have chosen to try to use QEMU, with SeaBIOS. As a validation try, I have created an image of FreeDOS1.1 without any problem. Next I booted an image of the HDD. All is going fine, but the MS-DOS of W98SE is not able to access the installation CD of W98SE needed to adjust to the new hardware configuration because of the absence of a proper driver. SeaBIOS is able to access a CD drive. So my question is: Do you know if there exist some MS-DOS W98SE CD driver using the SeaBIOS CD service ?
Configuration: Asrock H77M+G840+8Go, Gentoo/Linux stable amd64 (x86_64) Gnome qemu-kvm-1.0.1
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