MAMEWorld Forums - Programming - Re: Status of x-86 emulation

Ok. I've succeded to install everything, without using a tutorial. I have a "functional" Win 95 installed by using this command:

mame pcipc -harddisk PCI_PC -cdrm Windows95_Francais.iso -flop1 Windows95b.img

I've made the disk image with the CHD tool

chdman createhd -o PCI_PC -s 1000000000

Then it's needed to use fdisk in A:, (it's a bootable floppy image, without win95 CD don't seem to work, like it was before 2000 I guess.)

[1] make a primary partition, etc...

When prompted to use the entire size of the disk, don't, press [ N ]
Because it thinks I have more than the size of the virtual HDD. So, to be sure, I've made a partition of 800MB, made it bootable with the second option in the first menu, made a second partition of 200MB (I've made a CHD of 1GB, so) just in the case of. Rebooted after closing fdisk with echap button, then it booted everything to the win95 floppy A:.

The key to reboot is CTRL + ALT + [.(del) on the numerical keyboard]

Then "Format C:". It's impossible for a reason to use the quick format, and if you've made a partition of the real size, you avoid the kind of "restructuration" he do to find "new free space" he have done while using the so-called "full capacity" of the hard drive he was seeing as more than 2GB.

Anyway, just "Format C:", follow instructions, wait to finish, validate to finalise, then:

R:

then

install

the next step is important. Mice doesn't work during the install. If you use it, it freeze the emulated computer not the emulator, so you need to deactivate somehow your mouse. I have a wireless mouse, so I cut it off, you should find a way to get the same result. After that, you need to press enter to begin the install process. Just follow the instructions, and only use tab and enter as much as possible. It freezed during a question when i used too much the arrow buttons, I wanted to check the box for he search for LAN stuff. I rebooted, he restored the state of the install, and on the same page, I just pressed down once, spacebar to validate, enter, and it worked.

When it need to restart, press the scroll stop button to activate the mame keyboard interface, to press tab and in the file manager menu, just empty the floppy, or you can re-launch and modify the command for deleting the floppy command, or modify the boot sequence in bios, anyway you want, it doesn't matter.

During this blue screen image of win 1st boot, it still doesn't recognize your inserted CD, and at a moment it will ask you for a file you can't give to him. Just press cancel to continue the boot sequence. At a moment it will need to restart in the real installed system on the HDD. When he restart, then you can show him the path to the file he asked. It should be D:/win95. After he finished install, voilà, you're in the installed system.

Groooovy!

Maybe I should update to win98. Anyway, thanks for all the infos, "you did a great job, street fighters!"