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From: "John Nielsen" <oniblerz@attbi.com>
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Subject: Re: vmware and win98
Date: Tue, 4 Jun 2002 23:27:47 -0600
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Evren Yurtesen" <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>
To: <freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org>
Sent: Thursday, May 30, 2002 11:53 PM
Subject: vmware and win98


> I am trying to run win98 under vmware but it seems to be impossible even a
> win98 boot floppy doesnt boot! what might be wrong? did anybody have the
> same?

I've had the same problem.  If I try to boot to a Win98 Command prompt from
a floppy it hangs right before the prompt would come up (but after
processing config.sys and at least part of autoexec.bat).  I don't know what
the cause is, and I haven't found a fix, but there are workarounds.  The
most convenient one is to boot from a CD.  If you don't have a suitable CD
and don't know how to make one, e-mail me off the list.  If you are
desperate and have a lot of time on your hands you should be able to boot to
a command prompt from a "real" partition on your hard drive if such a
partition exists and has the boot files on it.

I'd love to find out why the floppy boot fails, though.

JN


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