[geeks] windows on a Sun v65x?

[Francois Dion]

Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:

>On Wed, 3 Mar 2004, Francois Dion wrote:
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>>How can I bootstrap the cdrom to boot windows from a win98 boot
>>floppy?
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>1) Get this file: http://jonathan.celestrion.net/crap/winboot.img
>2) dd it to a floppy.
>3) Boot from the floppy.
>4) Insert the Win2k CD, and run "Winnt.exe" from the i386 directory.
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>If you can't get that to work (I don't recall if winnt.exe requires
>16-bit Windows or if it will DTRT from DOS), I'll see if I can make a
>mini Windows 3.1 distribution like the Windows 9x installers use.  It'd
>be an interesting challenge.
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That worked but I cant get enough free mem with the cdrom driver, it 
states not enough memory when I try to run winnt.exe. I'm trying a 
format c: /s, copy the files to the HD, get rid of the cdrom driver and 
try that.

Francois