From owner-freebsd-emulation Wed Aug 1 8:17:17 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from otidan.hermans.ca (189.209-115-183-0.interbaun.com [209.115.183.189]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6C13137B401 for ; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 08:17:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from freebsd@hermans.ca) Received: from jhermans.hermans.ca (jhermans.inside [192.168.24.100]) by otidan.hermans.ca (8.11.4/8.11.4) with ESMTP id f71FHQS14726; Wed, 1 Aug 2001 09:17:30 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from freebsd@hermans.ca) Message-Id: <5.1.0.14.2.20010801091411.00a46ac0@imap> X-Sender: freebsd@imap X-Mailer: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Version 5.1 Date: Wed, 01 Aug 2001 09:17:05 -0600 To: "Cameron, Frank" From: Jamie Hermans Subject: RE: VMware and Floppy Drives... Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG In-Reply-To: <60E9726C658E234C9933F4BAD850E4EB513364@ctcjst-mail1.ctc.co m> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii"; format=flowed Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.org At 01:52 pm 2001-07-31, Cameron, Frank wrote: >If you set 'Start Connected' and try to boot off of a floppy, does that >work? > > > > > Yes. I have also tried leaving the startConnected option both on and > > off (as you saw) just to see if it made a difference (you never know.) > > > >To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org >with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message If I set start connected, I have to change to "device" instead of "file", but YES, I can boot off all the different floppy disks I have around. The "error" from NT is: A:\ is not accessible. The volume does not contain a recognized file system. Of course ... the floppy drive never even lights up. ... Jamie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message