From owner-freebsd-emulation Mon Dec 13 11:23:45 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Received: from kiwi.mail.easynet.net (kiwi.mail.easynet.net [195.40.1.40]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AF16715285 for ; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 11:23:39 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from ak@freenet.co.uk) Received: from freenet.co.uk (alister.w.easynet.co.uk [212.212.251.86]) by kiwi.mail.easynet.net (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5E6BCDAFE4; Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:23:34 +0000 (GMT) Message-ID: <385548F1.4F49003E@freenet.co.uk> Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:28:49 +0000 From: Alex X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; U; FreeBSD 4.0-CURRENT i386) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: "Louis A. Mamakos" Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" , freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update port VMware 1.1 for Linux, Networking Support References: <199912110143.UAA54831@whizzo.transsys.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org "Louis A. Mamakos" wrote: > > Has anyone been able to install a Windows 98 distribution inside > of VMware? I load the CDROM distribution and the boot floppy, but > the installation never gets beyond MSCDEX 2.25 displaying a banner; > it never actually starts SETUP.EXE from the CDROM drive. Yes, I have installed Windows 98 inside VMware. You don't need MSCDEX, unless you want to boot DOS first. Windows 98 can boot straight off the CD. It gives you several options to choose from - I presume the one you chose was "Start computer with CD-ROM support", which is the wrong one. Alex To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message