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From: Evren Yurtesen <eyurtese@turkuamk.fi>
To: John Nielsen <oniblerz@attbi.com>
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Subject: Re: vmware and win98
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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


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