well, sorry anders but this isn't a very productive suggestion... ;-) The answer is no - I put the right CD in (checked and double checked). The only thing I can think of is that because these are toshiba laptop recovery cd's it may first try to boot with win98, check that its a toshiba laptop and then boot xp (don't know - pure guess). it's also not a vmware problem (pretty confident about that one). so the question is - has anyone successfully managed to install xp on vmware with the xp laptop recovery cd's??? thanks, james. --- Anders Johansson wrote:

On Sat, 2003-08-02 at 17:29, James Philp wrote:

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Hello everyone,

This is a strange one -

I'm trying to install XP in vmware 4.0.1 on suse 8.2/xd2. I'm pretty sure vmware works (as it installed win2000) properly. when i try to install xp, soon after boot i get a text message saying preparing to install win 98 and then the system dies.

what's going on??

You've put the wrong CD in the tray. VMware never says "preparing to install...", that message comes from the CD. So you've put a win98 installation CD in.

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On Sat, Aug 02, 2003 at 08:59:12AM -0700 or thereabouts, James Philp wrote:

The only thing I can think of is that because these are toshiba laptop recovery cd's it may first try to boot with win98, check that its a toshiba laptop and then boot xp (don't know - pure guess).

it's also not a vmware problem (pretty confident about that one).

James, What I meant was is that since the VMWare usenet groups are concentrated with VMW users, probably with every type of config, you might have some success there.. Just a thought.. <g> It could very well be as you state above.. utilizing the recovery CDs. Regards, -- Gary

John Andersen wrote:

On Saturday 02 August 2003 07:59, James Philp wrote:

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so the question is - has anyone successfully managed to install xp on vmware with the xp laptop recovery cd's???

In a word, NO.

Those things are useless. The only thing you have going for you is the certificate of authenticity on the bottom of the machine. With that you can borrow a friends CD and burn a copy.

These recovery CD's have the full install directory. And there was a german article how to unlock it. If I remember correctly you should look for the i386 dir on the CD. This should contain the full install directory of WinXP. Hope this helps, Stefan.