ah, thanks for the clarification

correct me if i'm wrong, but i believe that that grey screen with the x is in all actuality a usable gui; just right click with the mouse to get a "start menu" with your program listings. i've seen that happen in redhat on occasion.

START ..\qemu-0.8.0-windows\qemu.exe -L ..\qemu-0.8.0-windows/ -soundhw sb16 -net nic -net user -localtime -m 196 -boot d -cdrom puppy-1.0.7-mozilla.iso -hda harddisk would that line be a .bat file that you run? and, more importantly, is that the same case off of a usb flash drive? *edit* okay, i c...

basically, yes; you boot your computer normally, and then run qemu to start puppy as a separate os within the windows environment

hey pavan, i was wondering if you ran into any problems while getting puppy up in qemu. i'm experimenting with both puppy and dsl, the latter of which boots in qemu, but so far, i keep getting an error in booting puppy: sorry, cannot start x. file /usr/x11r6/bin/x missing. if x is supposed to be ins...