A Netra T1 SPARC running Windows98 using Qemu

I’ve been running Micro$oft Window$98 inside a Sparc system, using QEMU and running Solaris 10 as the host system.
The speed is actually usable.
Get the package from
http://www.martux.org/qemu/RELEASES/sparc/SUNWqemu-0.8.2,REV=2006.10.14-sol8-sparc-opt.pkg.gz
it’ll end up at /opt/SUNWqemu, to install windows you can use a iso image of your Window$98 cd and create
the virtual disk that will contain the OS as:
# /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu-img create /w98.img 1000M
Then start the qemu emulator as:
# /opt/SUNWqemu/bin/qemu -hda /w98.img -m 128 -cdrom
/Windows98_Second_Edition_Full_Boot_From_Cd.iso -boot d
This will boot it to the Window$98 install iso image so you can install the OS.
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