Date: Wed, 5 Jun 2002 08:56:23 +0300 (WET) From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi> To: John Nielsen <oniblerz@attbi.com> Cc: freebsd-emulation@freebsd.org Subject: Re: vmware and win98 Message-ID: <Pine.A41.4.10.10206050854040.97784-100000@bessel.tekniikka.turkuamk.fi> In-Reply-To: <011401c20c51$ba732db0$0900a8c0@max>
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> > 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 Yes but I have win98 installed on a partition already. The primary partition. It is working great =) But somehow vmware also refuses to boot from there. I am sure everything must be correct. I made this before with windows ME and it was booting fine. My friend couldn't boot win98 also and he could boot win2000 Is there a real workaround? I would want to use FreeBSD instead of Windows but I have a few programs here which I would like to use and they work on Windows only so... =( Evren To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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