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Posted: Jan. 03 2007,22:43 QUOTE

I'd like to use dsl on an old PentiumMMX (win95) machine, but I'd like to take it for a test drive with the embedded version.  I've had problems upon problems getting it to run.  I'm having all sorts of QEMU problems - all related to missing dll's.  The latest is "The QEMU.exe file is linked to missing export kernel32.dll:Cancello."  Can someone point me in the right direction on QEMU?  Is there a different version that will work on an old win95 machine?  And will that version be compatible with DSL?  I couldn't find anything on the QEMU website, but I am starting to think QEMU won't work on windows95.

Thanks in advance.

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Posted: Jan. 03 2007,23:18 QUOTE

That machine would not have enough horeses to run Windows/Qemu/DSL.

But you can still test drive DSL before you install, if you have a floppy drive..  

1. Download dsl-v3.1.iso onto your C:\ drive must be in the top level, not in any folders.

2. Download the dsl standard boot floppy and use rawrite to write the image to a good floppy drive.

3.Then boot your Win95 machine from floppy with the folowing command

boot: dsl bootfrom=/dev/hda1/dsl-3.1.iso

You may need additional boot options like vga=normal

It will run slower like this, but you can at least 'test drive' it.
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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,00:49 QUOTE

Thanks for the reply.  I'll give that a shot.
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Posted: Jan. 04 2007,01:32 QUOTE

That seems to not always work, try this way, probably better.
Download the dsl-embedded.zip and then unzip it in Windows
Move the knoppix/ folder to the top level of c:\

So you should have c:\knoppix\knoppix

Then use your boot floppy.

This method should work more reliably
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