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On Monday 06 August 2001 20:28, Thomas Bishop wrote:
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I may have a clue here... :o)
1) I recently installed VMware and the first thing I tried was to boot from a floppy. I figured it would be an easy test... but I could never get it to work. I went through most of the gyrations you did.
2) Then it came time to install a copy of windows and I wanted to boot from the startup floppy. Undaunted I went through the machine config including making up the HD for the machine. When it came time to boot, it had no problem seeing the floppy without any special BIOS fiddling. I have since even had it try to boot a floppy that I left in the drive when I was really trying to boot from the HD.. (the usual real life experience...)
Anyway, my impression is that there must be a HD defined to the machine in order to boot from a floppy..... but I could be all wet on that.
Hi Bruce, Well, I don't think you're all wet, but you might be slightly damp! ;-) I have tried to boot from a floppy when starting an already configured VM, eg: Win89 or WinNT4, and it still won't do it. However, the Win98 and WinNT4 VM's I have now *must* have been booted from a floppy, but that was *not* in 7.2 as I save them before installing the latest version of SuSE, which would lead me to believe it's somethin' with 7.2, throw mother from the train, a kiss. Sorry, my thought processes surpass my typing skills. I think I'll contact VMware about this. Thanks, all. I'll post if I get an answer, but keep the ideas coming! Tom
Hold the phone.... being a glutton for punishment, I thought I would go test my theory... and I was right... I'm all wet.. <g> However, I was able to boot from a floppy. I *did* create a HD but it was never needed and I eventually deleted it. I *did* go into the bios and removed the ! from the removable drives ==> floppy drive and that did it. During my testing, it also booted from the cd-rom but I was successful in just booting from a floppy. This is SuSE 7.2 but running VMware 2.0.4 with kernel 2.4.7 -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/06/01 21:00 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Two-thirds of the world's eggplant is grown in New Jersey."