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$Id$
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This is a temporary place to paste in stuff that should go into the docs one
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day. When it is transferred into docbook, let's remove it from misc.txt.
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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--------------------------------------------------------------------------
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Date: Thu, 15 Nov 2001 13:31:34 -0800
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From: David Christy <davidc@davidc.biz>
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To: bryce@tlw.com
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Subject: usefull info for mounting
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I didn't see this in the doc's so I thought you might like a
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short description of how to mount a disk image file into
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loopback filesystem for maintenance purposes.
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--------------------------------------------
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1) First run
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fdisk -l <image_name>
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... and it should print out a partition table (with a few
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complaints requesting the drive geometry, and I don't know
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if older versions require a block device) In fact fdisk will
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even work to modify partitions in an image, but you must
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specify the drive geometry that's in the bocsrc first.
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2) Whatever it says the starting partition is, subtract 1
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and multiply by 512
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3) Type
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mount -o loop,offset=<insert number here> <image_name>
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/mount/dir
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or if it's just a floppy image, just
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mount -o loop floppy.img /mount/dir
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---------------------------------------------------
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I would recommend putting -o ro for read only access if
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bochs is in use. For unusual filesystems you may need to
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add a -t <fstype> flag to the mount command to specify the
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filesystem type.
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see man mount, losetup, and fdisk for more info
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BOCHS Rocks!!!
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-------------macintosh.txt-----------------
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BBD Mon Nov 25 08:23:28 EST 2002
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This file has been in our main directory for years and years, and has not
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been updated since nobody has tried to compile for MacOS pre-10 in a long
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time. I didn't want to leave it sitting there since it is so incredibly
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obsolete. I think it would be good to put it into the documentation
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with proper warnings about the fact that it hasn't been updated in 4 years
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and may need significant hacking to make it work again.
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------------------
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Changes by Bryce Denney 4/5/2001:
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I moved the contents of macutils.h into osdep.h, and macutils.c
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into osdep.cc. There are functions missing on other platforms too,
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so I wanted to bring them all into the same place.
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The original macintosh.txt follows.
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STATUS OF THE MAC PORT:
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-----------------------
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23 Dec 1998
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Contents:
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Status
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How to Set up MacBochs
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Problems
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Other Issues
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New Files
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Changed Files
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Status
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------
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This is an experimental Macintosh port of Bochs. The Mac port compiles fine
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under CodeWarrior Pro R1 (CW12) and is capable of booting Win95 in command-
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line mode and running DOS programs. A CodeWarrior project ("Bochs.proj") is
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included (you may need to edit the type and creator information with ResEdit
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in order for CodeWarrior to recognise it as a project file).
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NOTE: MacBochs is very much a "work in progress", and much of the code is
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incomplete. This preliminary version is being made available mainly to
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interested developers who may want to contribute to the development of
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MacBochs by contributing some code or testing it on their own Macs.
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If anyone can test with some "clean" Windows installer disks, it would be
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useful. I've been testing MacBochs with my SoftWindows HD image and disk
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images derived from it, and I'm not sure if the various SoftWindows-specific
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drivers are interfering.
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23 Dec 98 - updated MacBochs to bochs-981222. The new version seems
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noticeably faster. Finished implementing the Bochs headerbar. Added support
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for ejecting floppy disks from within Bochs (click the Drive A: icon on the
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headerbar or press Cmd-E).
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17 Dec 98 - added real floppy disk support. Also optimized the graphics
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screen drawing a bit more. Keyboard support still broken and in need of a
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major overhaul. Does anyone have experience with KCHR resources and
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KeyTranslate()?
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How to Set up MacBochs
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----------------------
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This is a very brief, step-by-step guide on setting up MacBochs. More
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detailed documentation will be available later.
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- Step 1. Compile the version of Bochs you want to use (PPC, 68k or FAT) or
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obtain a pre-compiled binary. There is a CodeWarrior project included with
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the source distribution.
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- Step 2. Create a hard disk image.
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Bochs ALWAYS needs a hard disk image available to it, otherwise it won't
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boot. To create a hard disk image on the Mac, you need to use a recent
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version of DiskCopy.
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First, create an untitled, empty folder anywhere on your Mac hard disk. Then,
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launch DiskCopy and choose to create a folder image of that folder.
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DO NOT ENTER THE DISK SIZE IN MEGABYTES. In the file "install.html" in the
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"docs-html" folder you will find a table of disk sizes and geometries. Make a
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note of the number of total SECTORS required for your desired hard disk size,
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as well as the cylinders, heads and sectors per track (spt).
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In DiskCopy, you need to choose "Custom..." from the menu of image sizes, and
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choose to enter the size in "blocks" (on the Mac, a block is pretty much the
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same as a sector). Then enter the number of total sectors you need.
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Make sure the image is "Read/Write", not "Read Only", and make sure you have
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entered the correct cyl=, heads= and spt= settings in your bochsrc file. Your
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image file should now be accessible to Bochs.
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You'll eventually need to use a utility like "fdisk" to make the image
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readable.
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- Step 3. Obtain a bootable PC floppy or floppy image.
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You'll need to install an operating system in order to do anything useful
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with Bochs. If you have installer floppies for a PC operating system (eg.
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Windows or MS-DOS) you can use those. Otherwise you can download disk images
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for FreeDOS or one of the many variants of Linux.
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MacBochs now supports real PC floppy disks. To use the Mac floppy drive
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instead of a disk image, use the special filename "[fd:]" in the appropriate
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line of your bochsrc.
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- Step 4. Set up your bochsrc file.
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You set up your Bochs preferences by editing the "bochsrc" file. You'll need
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to set up your bochsrc to work with your floppy and hard disk images, as well
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as telling Bochs how many megs of PC RAM you want.
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Problems
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--------
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There are some so far unresolved problems in the "macintosh.cc" GUI file:
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- Keyboard support is VERY rudimentary; ie. it only supports alphanumerics
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and a couple of special keys like Enter. The keyboard-related code is full of
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holes and I'm going to completely rehash it.
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- Mouse support hasn't been tested, but probably isn't fully working either.
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Other Issues
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------------
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- The Mac port uses a ready-made config file (configmac.h), like the Win32
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port used to. Macs are pretty homogeneous, so the settings should be
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appropriate for most machines.
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- The Mac port has an extra source file: "macutils.c" (with header file
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"macutils.h"), which is used for Mac floppy drive support, among other
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things.
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- Like the Win32 port, the Mac port expects the "bochsrc" file to be in the
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same directory as the Bochs application.
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- Be sure to use Mac pathname conventions when editing the bochsrc file (ie
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':' instead of '/' or '\').
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New files
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---------
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The following are new, Mac-specific files:
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gui/macintosh.cc
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configmac.h
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macutils.h
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macutils.c
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Bochs.proj
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Changed Files
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-------------
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The following files from the main bochs distribution have been modified to
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compile properly on the Mac:
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bochs.h
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main.cc
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memory/memory.cc
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memory/misc_mem.cc
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iodev/floppy.cc
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iodev/harddrv.cc
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The changes are just conditional compilations which won't affect other
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platforms (search for "#ifdef macintosh" and "#ifndef macintosh" if you want
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to see what the changes are). These changes will need to be integrated into
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the main distribution if the MacOS port is going to go ahead seriously.
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-- David Batterham <drbatter@socs.uts.edu.au> or <drbatter@yahoo.com>
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--------------------win32.txt----------------------
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BBD Mon Nov 25 08:27:24 EST 2002
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The win32 build instructions are out of date too. The --with-win32-vcpp
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has been deprecated since at least March 2002. More current instructions
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are already in the docs, so this info may not be of much use.
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Building Bochs for Win32
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------------------------
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This has only been tested with MS Visual C++ 6.0.
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The normal build process on a unix system is to run configure to build all the
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makefiles and config.h, and then run make to compile Bochs. Configure takes a
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large number of command line arguments, for example to disable floating point
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or to enable sound blaster emulation. Configure works beautifully on unix
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systems to help make the code portable, however it cannot run on Windows.
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(Maybe, if you have cygwin.) Therefore, you need to either 1) run configure
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on a unix box and copy the makefiles and config.h, or 2) download the
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makefiles which are distributed in a separate ZIP file.
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If you want to run configure yourself, consider using the shell script
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".conf.win32-vcpp" since it has been tested. Look at it to make sure
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the options make sense for you. You can always run configure by hand too,
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just be sure to include the option --with-win32-vcpp so that it creates
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makefiles for win32. Copy config.h, Makefile, and the Makefiles in all
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subdirectories over to your windows box into the same directory as the Bochs
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source.
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If you download the makefiles in a ZIP, just extract them into the
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same directory as the Bochs source. The config.h and top level Makefile
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should end up in the same directory as Bochs.h.
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Once the makefiles are installed, building Bochs is easy. Start up an MSDOS
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window, run the .BAT file that sets up the environment variables
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(C:\vc98\bin\vcvars32.bat on my system), and then run NMAKE in the Bochs
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source directory. You will get lots of compile warnings, but hopefully no
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fatal errors! At the end, you should see Bochs.exe in the source directory.
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<!-- *************************************************************** -->
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Wed Dec 11 13:56:20 EST 2002
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this text came from build/linux/DOC-linux.html.
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Originally it was an intro to Bochs for Linux users. I converted it all to
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docbook. I moved most of the info from DOC-linux.html into different
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sections of the user guide, and the rest I put here in misc.txt. Maybe these
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paragraphs will be useful in some kind of introduction to something, or maybe
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not.
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<section><title>Quick Start for Linux users</title>
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<!--much text removed, put into user guide -->
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<para>
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This file is an introduction to Bochs for Linux users. It assumes that you
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have just installed a Bochs binary distribution, and now you want to see what
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Bochs can do!
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</para>
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<section><title>How can I try out Bochs in 10 minutes or less?</title>
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<para>
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This RPM package includes a sample disk image containing DLX Linux, which you
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can boot within Bochs. To start up DLX linux, just type "bochs-dlx" in an
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xterm. The first time it runs, it creates a disk image in a directory
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called <filename>$HOME/.bochsdlx</filename>. Then it creates a Bochs Display
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window and prints some log messages into the xterm. The display window is the
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most interesting, but if something goes wrong the log messages should give an
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idea of what has happened.
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</para>
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<para>
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Meanwhile, the Bochs display screen should look like a PC booting...and in
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fact it is! Bochs begins simulating a PC from the time the power turns on.
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You will see the VGA BIOS message, and it begins loading Linux from the disk
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image. The disk image is just a big file that Bochs uses as if it were a
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real hard drive. After a while, you see Linux boot messages and eventually a
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login prompt. You are now running DLX Linux in a window!
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</para>
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<para>
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Bochs simulates every instruction of an x86 CPU, so it is very memory- and
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compute-intensive. The speed of your real CPU will make a big difference in
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how fast the DLX Linux image boots. On a 1GHz Pentium, the sample Linux
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image takes about 10 seconds to boot.
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</para>
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<para>
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In this brief introduction you saw how Bochs can boot and run an x86 operating
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system in a window. It doesn't have to be Linux, of course! Various people
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have been able to install and run DOS, Windows 3.1, Windows 95/98/ME/NT/XP,
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Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD, OpenBSD, and probably others that we've never even
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heard of. In fact Bochs is used by many operating system developers to test
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out their software in a controlled environment without having to reboot their
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development machine.
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</para>
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<para>
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If you are learning about Bochs for the first time, you might want to
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download a few other prebuilt disk images of other operating systems from the
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Bochs website. They range from very small (1.44 meg floppy disk images) to
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hundreds of megabytes. Most disk images on the web site come with a
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working configuration file (often called bochsrc.txt) so they should work
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without much effort. This will give you an idea of what Bochs can do,
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and how it might be useful to you.
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</para>
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</section>
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------------------------------------------
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Windows 3.1 install hints
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Date: Fri, 13 Dec 2002 09:56:48 -0700
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From: Ben Lunt <fys@cybertrails.com>
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To: bochs-devel <bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net>
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I was playing with bochs a bit last night and successfully
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got windows 3.1 installed on a c.img file and run with
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almost no errors.
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I first started with three original DOS 5.0 720k images,
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FDISKed, FORMATed, and then install.
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Then changed to seven 1_44m disks and installed Win16.
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Each time either OS asked for a new disk, I simply
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copied the expected image to a.img and continued.
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------------------------------------------
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WinNT4 guest network problems
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From: Jeremy Wilkins <jeb at jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk>
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To: bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: [Bochs-developers] Odd network errors with NT4 Guest OS
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I'm having trouble transferring files over the network to the guest OS
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(NT4 SP1). If I'm using SMB then the it errors out early on with a
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session cancelled. The file is 36Mb (SP6). I've tried with various file
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sizes, 3Meg files work, 5 meg files do not.
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I've also tried shuffling the files over http with similar problems,
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small files are fine (can browse websites) but large files just error out.
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The system is a 1Ghz Windows XP SP1 box with bochs 2.02, guest OS is
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allocated 64Mb of RAM and running Windows NT4 SP1.
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Any clues, anyone experiencing similar problems?
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--
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From: didier <dgautheron at magic.fr>
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To: Jeremy Wilkins <jeb at jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk>
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Cc: bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Bochs-developers] Odd network errors with NT4 Guest OS
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Did you try with a big IPS? start the guest clock applet and try to get
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a more or less accurate time, with 1 Ghz should be in the 50 000 000 range.
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IIRC NT timeout and abort before it send the whole packet.
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--
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From: Jeremy Wilkins <jeb at jeremywilkins.freeserve.co.uk>
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To: didier <dgautheron at magic.fr>, bochs-developers@lists.sourceforge.net
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Subject: Re: [Bochs-developers] Odd network errors with NT4 Guest OS
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Thanks, 60 000 000 seems to have done the trick (I can copy sp6 across
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anyway). My original guess of 4000000 IPS was probably a bit low :)
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thanks again
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TAP under FreeBSD
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Date: Fri, 14 Feb 2003 02:12:38 +0100
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From: Ronald Klop <ronald at echteman.nl>
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To: bochs-developers at lists.sourceforge.net
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I've made eth_tap.cc working under FreeBSD 4.7, because the fbsd network driver
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didn't work for me.
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It's not a very clean patch, but the changes are minimal.
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Some notes:
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- I found that some of the includes aren't used at all (on FreeBSD).
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- The socket which is created before /dev/tap0 is opened doesn't work, because
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tap0 is created after opening the device.
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- Maybe the eth_tap device can use a configure script like the eth_tuntap
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device, because the device must be configured after opening.
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- The padding of the ethernet frame with 2 bytes isn't needed in FreeBSD.
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- I didn't do any work to check for this in configure, because I don't know how
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configure works and don't have the time work it out now.
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- the guest os must set (maybe this can be documented somewhere):
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kldload if_tap (if tap is not compiled in the kernel)
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ifconfig tap0 inet 10.0.1.1 netmask 255.255.255.0
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sysctl net.inet.ip.forwarding=1
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sysctl net.link.ether.inet.proxyall=1
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