Hello, kvm/qemu also have ncurses interfaces. Try kvm -curses or qemu -curses. Hth, Garrett Gregory Nowak wrote: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 03:49:47AM -0700, Tony Baechler wrote: >> OK, I was unclear obviously. What you say is correct in most cases that >> an emulator interface has nothing to do with the guest OS. However, at >> least when I played with Bochs a long time ago, Bochs was different. If >> you didn't need graphics, you could set it to only use a curses >> interface for the emulated OS and it worked. > > Yes, this was even true for installing/running win95/wineyes back when > I tried it. The biggest problem I found here was the lack of keyboard > usability, (I.E. the tab key, the win/menu keys, ETC.), but that's a > different story. > >> It comes with a sample 10 >> MB Linux disk image. If you tell it to not use a GUI but to run the >> image with the curses interface, you have a very minimal emulated Linux >> system. There isn't a lot you can do with it, but I verified that it in >> fact worked. I tried with other images but didn't get anywhere. Maybe >> that has changed but it used to work. > > I never tried the provided images. I just made an hd image, and tried > a clean install of win95 on it. > >> Being that there was no GUI, I >> don't think it was that slow but I don't remember. > > You might have been running bochs on a system with higher specs than > mine. I was running it at the time on a 600 MHz pentium III system, > with 256 megs of RAM, and I don't recall how much swap. Even so, > whether or not you used a gui wouldn't have mattered much I don't > think in terms of speed. As I said, speed depends on the goal of the > bochs project, which is to emulate every single x86 instruction, > rather than letting the native cpu do some of the work. This approach > makes sense if you want to for example run windows, an x86 OS on a non > x86 arch, like Sun sparc for example. > >>>> NetBSD claims to run on anything including the Vax so I'm sure it >>>> has a text installer that could run in an emulator. > > Yeah, in an emulator, or a physical machine. > >> Huh? Yes, the ports collection builds everything from source but you >> can download precompiled packages as well, at least on FreeBSD. > > - From all of my research, you could get only the base system as > binaries on netbsd. If there were binary builds for everything else > besides that, I never found where you could get them from, and I did > look all over the netbsd repos, like you suggested. Maybe this has > changed now, but it was certainly true as far as I could tell, back > when I was running netbsd. Also, it's probably not a good idea to > assume that just because freebsd has something, that netbsd will have > it too, (I'm referring specifically to binary packages here). There > are reasons for why one is called freebsd, and the other is called > netbsd, rather than being the same os identically, right down to the > last detail. I can't speak > for freebsd, I never tried it. > >> The >> dependency tracking isn't the best but it wasn't that bad. I would >> check ftp://ftp.XX.netbsd.org/ again, replacing XX with your country >> code. > > Thanks for the suggestion, but I blew away my netbsd install about a > year or more ago now, and don't plan to bring it back in the near future. > > Greg > > > - -- > web site: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org > gpg public key: http://www.romuald.net.eu.org/pubkey.asc > skype: gregn1 > (authorization required, add me to your contacts list first) > > - -- > Free domains: http://www.eu.org/ or mail dns-manager at EU.org > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.9 (GNU/Linux) > > iEYEARECAAYFAkjX8WIACgkQ7s9z/XlyUyAyBQCfRpU63OID0ej8u1VZCVT9uK2F > kOEAn0ChS6bRNS3PgS+VIjS4/ZO/AXOg > =y9dV > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > _______________________________________________ > Speakup mailing list > Speakup at braille.uwo.ca > http://speech.braille.uwo.ca/mailman/listinfo/speakup >
