On Wed, Jul 8, 2009 at 8:20 AM, Pierre Bourgin
<pierre.bour...@arteris.com>wrote:
> Allan Lyons a écrit :
> > In looking over some stuff, I couldn't come up with a reason why we still
> have dosemu.
> > What does the dosemu code-path give us that the newer nt5x-install
> > method does not? I know it was there historically, but what features
> > does it have that are missing in the newer method? >
> > I couldn't find anything in the archives that gave a good reason.
>
> The windows NT4/2000/XP installer support both DOS and text/NT based OS
> to work.
> dosemu provides a compatible DOS OS, enough to launch Windows setup.
>
> nt5x-install is a quirck to create a text/NT bootable OS on the hard
> drive. As such, it's working fine and greatly speed up the installation
> process, but it remains a (wonderful) hack.
>
> dosemu could be removed from Unattended, but people may feel less
> confident in nt5x-install than dosemu method as bootable OS ...
>
> In the other hand, in case of trouble with nt5x-install, dosemu provides
> an alternate bootable solution, at least to check if problem comes from
> nt5x-install or not.
>
Yep, i'm glad that dosemu is still there as i can't do unattended
installation with nt5x-install method. I don't know why yet but the
unattend.sif created by nt5x-install is full of perl code which for some
reason wasn't interpreted :-/
Dosemu is may be slower but more reliable it seems.
Cheers,
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