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On Monday 06 August 2001 17:39, Thomas Bishop wrote:
Been there, done that, except for doing the "!". Always thought that was along the lines of "not". I'll give it a try.
I beg your pardon -- you are right! Yes, if there is NO "!" then the floppy should be bootable; if there is a "!" then it isn't. Pity the VMWare Help isn't helpful about this. snip<
Sorry about the confusion. Ted.
Hi Ted, No problem, and no, it didn't work ;-( Let me ask you this: when you expand the removable drives section to reveal the floppy drive, can you actually get it to move to the top of the list with "+" ? This does not happen for me. I can highlight the floppy drive (which I do, and exit and save) , but it won't budge. I seem to recall that I didn't have this prob in prior SuSE versions. In fact it seems to me that I used to pay heck to get a CD to boot, but a floppy always did, especially with a fresh VM. Curious. Thanks again. Tom
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. -- +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ + Bruce S. Marshall bmarsh@bmarsh.com Bellaire, MI 08/06/01 17:54 + +----------------------------------------------------------------------------+ "Never insult an alligator until you have crossed the river."