From owner-freebsd-emulation Thu Jul 27 14:17:26 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from baynet.baynetworks.com (ns1.BayNetworks.COM [134.177.3.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 21A9837B523 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:17:22 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bwithrow@BayNetworks.COM) Received: from mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (h8754.s84f5.BayNetworks.COM [132.245.135.84]) by baynet.baynetworks.com (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA08706 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 14:15:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (pobox.engeast.baynetworks.com [192.32.61.6]) by mailhost.BayNetworks.COM (8.9.1/8.8.8) with ESMTP id RAA08041 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:17:17 -0400 (EDT) Received: from baynetworks.com (kyzyl [192.32.150.103]) by pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM (SMI-8.6/BNET-97/04/24-S) with ESMTP id RAA16336; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:17:16 -0400 for Message-Id: <200007272117.RAA16336@pobox.engeast.BayNetworks.COM> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: emulation@freebsd.org Cc: bwithrow@engeast.BayNetworks.COM Subject: VMWare floppy problems Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 17:17:17 -0400 From: Robert Withrow Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Continuing my saga, rather than diddle with NT to make it uniprocessor, I decided to try to install Win95 in a virtual disk. This is FBSD4.0Rel, and vmware2-2.0.2.621. The VM boots the floopy and loads the CDROM driver, then tells me that COMMAND.COM is corrupted or can't be found. - I've tried this with two different floppies with identical results. - I've configured the floppy as directed in Hints.FreeBSD floppy0.fileType = "file" floppy0.present = TRUE floppy0.fileName = "/dev/rfd0" floppy0.startConnected = TRUE - I've also DD'd the contents of the floppy to a file and tried floppy0.fileName = "floppy.image" with the same results. - I've also tried configuring the floppy as a device. That leads to weirder behavior, with garbage being written to the virtual console. In all cases the log has stuff like this: Jul 27 17:05:40: Floppy: Read with Strange Geometry. Max Sector: 0x1A Jul 27 17:05:40: FloppyImage: Strange Geometry Not supported. Suggestions? Please reply directly. Thanks! -- Robert Withrow -- (+1 978 288 8256) BWithrow@BayNetworks.com To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message