Mailinglist Archive: opensuse (2569 mails)

[Ken Schneider <suse-list3@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Stan Goodman pecked at the keyboard and wrote:
> On Saturday 07 February 2009 23:24:34 Jay C Vollmer wrote:
> > On Saturday 07 February 2009 12:35:07 Stan Goodman wrote:
> > > I've made a virtual Win2k. When it comes up, it displays an error
> > > message:
> > >
> > > <FATAL: No bootable medium found! System halted.>
> > >
> > > What does it want?
> > When you state that you made a 'virtual Win2k,' do you mean that you used
> > thte VirtualBox manager to create a Win2k config file, or did you create
> > a virtual disk image (vdi) file in which you can install the OS?
>
> I wish I could answer that question. The mechanics of this program are still 
> very foggy to me. It asked me what virtual machine I wanted to make, and I 
> filled in the blanks, mainly how much RAM I wanted, whether dynamically 
> sized or fixed, and how much HD space. I don't remember a question like the 
> one you ask.
>
> > I'm guessing that you created the virtual disk, but didn't install the OS
> > into it yet.  You do have the installer disks, don't you?
>
> Disks? You mean Windows disk? But from reading about the program I 
> understood that VB is an emulator,

I emulates the hardware _not_ the software, *you* need to supply the software.

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Ken Schneider
SuSe since Version 5.2, June 1998
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