Date: Mon, 13 Dec 1999 22:08:50 -0500 From: "Louis A. Mamakos" <louie@TransSys.COM> To: Alex <ak@freenet.co.uk> Cc: "Vladimir N. Silyaev" <vsilyaev@mindspring.com>, freebsd-emulation@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: ANNOUNCE: Update port VMware 1.1 for Linux, Networking Support Message-ID: <199912140308.WAA28207@whizzo.transsys.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 13 Dec 1999 19:28:49 GMT." <385548F1.4F49003E@freenet.co.uk> References: <199912110143.UAA54831@whizzo.transsys.com> <385548F1.4F49003E@freenet.co.uk>
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> "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. Ah, that's curious. It seems that my Windows 98 CD isn't bootable. I just tried it on another system (which can boot the FreeBSD CDROMs with no difficulty), and it's unhappy with it. My next plan is to install Windows 98 under VMware on a Red Hat Linux box, and then just move the virtual IDE disk file over to freebsd. louie To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-emulation" in the body of the message
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