[Quantian-general] Re: Quantian0.7.9.2.iso, lilogrub HOWTO Can't find

[jack byers]

Dirk wrote:
>Jack,
>It is pretty impossible to read your mail because you make too little of an
>Ieffort to show what's written by you, and what's quoted.

>In any, if and only if the iso file is not corrupted, then
>       $ qemu -net user -m 256 -cdrom quantian_0.7.9.2.iso

>starts Quantian just fine. Being emulated, a boot process takes longer so
>wait a few minutes on it.  The initial splash screen should come up right
>away. I then simply hit return for the default, and the boot proceeds,
>slowly, on my one-year old pIV while I continue to do other things. Total
>boot time is certainly a few minutes, so do make sure you wait it out.

Dirk,
sorry about by poor email etiquette; this one should be better.

that qemu line above worked for me too!
what i had used before was my poor attempt using
the qemu man pages

[byers at bootp rh8]$ qemu -net user -m 256 -cdrom Quantian_0.7.9.2.iso
Could not configure '/dev/rtc' to have a 1024 Hz timer. This is not a fatal
error, but for better emulation accuracy either use a 2.6 host Linux kernel
or
type 'echo 1024 > /proc/sys/dev/rtc/max-user-freq' as root.
Could not open '/dev/kqemu' - QEMU acceleration layer not activated

I dont know what that dev/rtc thing is--i am using fc5 with a 2.6 kernel.
I suppose if  i get kqemu installed, qemu will go faster.

this is nice; and i can explore quantian with it.
I will probably try to get the kqemu installed before doing much w qemu.

So now I am back to why i cant get the quantian iso
started using the prescription in the lilogrub howto

Since the qemu does bring up quantian,
then my downloaded iso is good.

Harvey replied with some message re devicefile,
i havent figured out yet what he means.

unless somehow that lilogrub method has trouble with scsi drives?
I have the  quantian.iso on sdb5


thanks for your help and patience
Jack
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