[plug] Re: w98 remote boot was: plex86 + bochs

[Chris Caston]

Looks like a cool hack but I found it quite confusing.

This just actually runs the software from a Samba share right?

regards,

Chris


On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 11:22, Scott Middleton wrote:
> I couldn't find the original doc i was talking about but i found this:
> http://www.videoshaker.com/
> 
> On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 11:00, Chris Caston wrote:
> 
>     On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 10:58, Scott Middleton wrote:
>     > On a similar side note i saw a howto somewhere on LTSP where a guy
>     > managed to Remote Boot win98. Might be of interest?
>     >
>     
>     Could be. What did he use? 
>      
>     > On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 10:21, Chris Caston wrote:
>     >     On Sat, 2003-05-03 at 10:06, Scott Middleton wrote:
>     >     > On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 23:14, Chris Caston wrote:
>     >     >     On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 23:07, Jason H. Smith wrote:
>     >     >     
>     >     >     > If you have any luck with the hybrid, please let me/us know!
>     >     >     >
>     >     >     
>     >     >     Will do. It doesn't seem like I'm getting far at the moment though. If I
>     >     >     get it working I eventually plan to try running it under LTSP.
>     >     > 
>     >     > If its a commercial venture and money isn't important, 
>     >     
>     >     Well. I'm going to be setup up my bro's PPC machine as a LTSP client and
>     >     serve apps to him from a LTSP server.
>     >     
>     >     He's needs to run some win32 apps for a tafe course he is studying.
>     >     
>     >     I can't afford win4lin (so in this situation money is important) nor do
>     >     I want to pirate it.  
>     >     
>     >     One idea I am playing with though is to build new Linux machines for
>     >     people that currently have old Win95/98 machines.
>     >     
>     >     >From there I could create an image of their existing machine using
>     >     bximage either directly from their drive (if it supports that) or just
>     >     run a partimage boot disk inside of bochs.
>     >     
>     >     I think that we need an OpenSource replacement for win4lin I am sickened
>     >     at the idea that if you want (make that have no choice) to run win32
>     >     apps on Linux you need to buy software. 
>     >     
>     >     I'm going to avoid (if possible) a discussion about WINE.
>     >     
>     >     
>     >      
>     >     Win4Lin Server is
>     >     > about a 5 minute setup. If you ask netraverse nicely they will give you
>     >     > a 30 day evaluation license. I used that with LTSP very successfully for
>     >     > quite a while.
>     >     >
>     >     
>     >     I would have tried it already if the download was trial was on their
>     >     site.
>     >     
>     >     >     
>     >     >     I like sure like to see that "proof of concept tarball"
>     >     >     
>     >     >     regards,
>     >     >     
>     >     >     Chris Caston 
>     >     >      
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