Libguestfs - Dec 2014 - Re: does guestfs_list_partitions() work with Windows 95 images?

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>
> It's possible that the disk is not partitioned, ie. that what
you've
> got here is a straight filesystem.  You could see if libguestfs can
> mount it:
>
>   guestfish --ro -a disk.img -m /dev/sda
>   ><fs> ll /
>
>
That worked! Thanks for the help.

Now I'm tweaking my old code and just replacing my guestfs_mount()
call with a hard-coded "guestfs_mount(g,
"/dev/sda",'/");

Next task is to review my registry changes and see if those registries
even exist in Win95.

What this code does is open the image, tweaks some registry settings
to use some "generic" drivers and uploads those drivers. With the
goal of running the VM without resulting in a BSOD. But I might just try
and remove all the "tweaking" and see if a Virtual Box VM can just
boot
up the image. Might get lucky.

Besides - I doubt those drivers are Win95 compatible.

I'll let you know how it goes.

On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 09:54:03AM -0500, Skippy VonDrake
wrote:
> What this code does is open the image, tweaks some registry settings
> to use some "generic" drivers and uploads those drivers.
I think you might find that the Windows 95 registry format is not
compatible with hivex.  I don't think anyone has actually tried it.

Rich.

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