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Topic: Help with Qemu

En Taro Adun my fellow Crunchbangers.
Wine has failed to run a -windows only- program that is very dear to me.
Someone on youtube suggested using QUEMU because this particular program is not too resource intensive anyway. But there is only one problem.
I dont have any winblows installer CD'S
I require a Windows 98 QUEMU install because XP would hog too much ram.
Seeing as how this is an obsolete operating system I was surprised that one still has to fork out money to microsoft to get a CD.
If anyone knows where I can download an ISO of 98's CD I would much appreciate it.
It does NOT have to be a legal copy seeing as how i will only install one program on it.
Thanks.

P.S: If you picked up on what the program is in the first line of this post- type this at the begenning of your reply: operation cwal.

Last edited by rigosantana3 (2009-05-15 00:49:29)

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Re: Help with Qemu

Have you already tried searching for a torrent?

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Re: Help with Qemu

rigosantana3 wrote:

It does NOT have to be a legal copy seeing as how i will only install one program on it.

How can that be? One program or not, you need Windows and that requires a licence.

Please don't ask members to engage in illegal activity.

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Re: Help with Qemu

WinXP will run well enough. Runs fine with 64MB of RAM or less. You can use Nlite to make it very lean.

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Re: Help with Qemu

^ You're nuts. XP is bad enough on 128MB.

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Re: Help with Qemu

XP might be bad on whatever but that's beside the point - I run it frequently in 64MB and it's fit for purpose. I'm not short of RAM to throw at virtual machines. Just to note that for running virtually I selected XP over Win2K because of superior performance.

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Re: Help with Qemu

anonymous wrote:

^ You're nuts. XP is bad enough on 128MB.

+1 for that!!  I wouldn't run XP on anything less than a GB!

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Re: Help with Qemu

fhsm wrote:
anonymous wrote:

^ You're nuts. XP is bad enough on 128MB.

+1 for that!!  I wouldn't run XP on anything less than a GB!

XP flies on 512mb, fresh install of course.  yikes

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Re: Help with Qemu

rigosantana3 wrote:

If anyone knows where I can download an ISO of 98's CD I would much appreciate it.


Try asking Bill G. maybe... I say MAYBE he has a copy... smile

If that fails -> google + torrent search should help you out big_smile

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Re: Help with Qemu

omns wrote:
rigosantana3 wrote:

It does NOT have to be a legal copy seeing as how i will only install one program on it.

How can that be? One program or not, you need Windows and that requires a licence.

Please don't ask members to engage in illegal activity.

+1 to that. Bad publicity to see the title of this thread on the front page.

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Re: Help with Qemu

I believe the appropriate advice has been given here. I'm changing the title and closing the thread.

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