Date: Tue, 8 Feb 2000 22:48:59 -0500 From: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com> To: The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> Cc: emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: VMWare: reading from floppy drive ... Message-ID: <20000208224859.A248@jupiter.delta.ny.us>
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> Slowly figuring out `caveats` with this thing, and moving > forward. Got rtc installed and running, so mouse appears to be slightly > more responsive. Trying to get the `performance patches` installed next, > but can`t seem to get it to read from floppy: > >Linux_Floppy: Disk supposedly present, read: `Invalid argument`! Dumb question: did you have a floppy disk in a floppy drive? > Using mtools/mdir, I can read the floppy just fine... > > Reading from the website: > - Floppy disk detection currently doesn`t work. It is assumed that > a disk is always present in the floppy drive. Because of that, if > you have enabled both IDE and floppy drives in the same VMware > session, you must select the right booting order in the Phoenix BIOS > Setup. > My interpretation from the above is that it applies to booting >from floppy, but I should still have access to the drive once up? You are always can access to floppy drive, but for guest OS a floppy disk always will be in floppy drive (not depend from real state). And this applied to booting stage because in the default configuration BIOS will be tried to boot from a floppy drive. > Still haven`t got networking up, which is going to be next > option/task, but is there any way of getting the `tools` installed without > networking? Yes, you have the next possibilities: - floppy drive - file with a floppy image as a floppy drive (via vnXY, or directly on 2.0) - raw disk access -- Vladimir Silyaev To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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