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The MCC-Interim v1.0+ system images for QEMU are given below.
I have produced three QEMU system images:
mcc-interim-base-1.0+.img.gz
This is the base system on a hard disk produced with just the nocdrom.gz and root.gz floppy disk images from the original distribution.
mcc-interim-extra-1.0+.img.gz
This is an MSDOS formatted disk image containing all the standard and extra packages.
mcc-interim-1.0+.img.gz
This is a combination of both of the previous two disk images.
After downloading any of the files, ungzip them first. You can run either of the system images by typing:
qemu -M isapc -hda mcc-interim-base-1.0+.img
or
qemu -M isapc -hda mcc-interim-1.0+.img
To add some or all of the packages from the extra disk image, type:
qemu -M isapc -hda mcc-interim-base-1.0+.img -hdb mcc-interim-extra-1.0+.img
When the system has started, login as root and type:
/tmp/bootinstall
Select option 5 (+RETURN), folowed by the block device /dev/hdb (+RETURN) and then answer y (+RETURN) to be prompted for each package, or n (+RETURN) to install all the available packages. Then type the location of the packages /mnt (+RETURN)
(The image shows the Mac OSX version of QEMU, but the actual terminal would be the same on other platforms)
After thinking about it, since QEMU runs as default as a system with 128MB memory and that machines that the MCC Interim version originally ran on had nowhere near this amout of memory there is no real need to set up a swap partition in the emulated image. So I created another two system disk images:
mcc-interim-packages-1.0+.img.gz
This is an MSDOS format image with all the standard, extra and contributor(*) packages
mcc-interim-noswap-1.0+.img.gz
This is a combination or the base image and the above packages image but no swap partition.
(*) The packages in the contributors section install themselves on ‘/’ rather than in /usr/… so be carefull if you recreate the QEMU image.
The -M isapc option is required as these systems were pre-PCI and QEMU needs to be told to turn back the clock to the stone age… :-)