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On 06-Aug-01 Thomas Bishop wrote:
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.
If you expand "+Removable Devices" and move the cursor down to "Legacy Floppy Drives" then no, you can't move it with "+" or "-". However, so long as the cursor is on "+-Removable Devices" (i.e. expanded or not) then you can move the whole "Removable devices" up & down. All you need is to have this at the top. Bruce Marshal wrote:
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.
Thought I'd test this out.
[A]
vmware -> Run Config Wizard -> OK -> Next
Choose "MSDOS" -> Next -> Accept "~/vmware/dos/ -> Next
(1)Accept "2000 MB" -> Next
(2)Accept "CDROM enabled", "Start connected" -> Next
Accept "floppy enabled", "start connected" -> Next
Choose "No Networking" -> Next -> Done
(3)<NUL>
Put SuSE boot floppy in drive -> Power On -> It boots from floppy!
-> Power Off -> exit VMWare
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cd vmware
rm -rf dos
remove SuSE boot floppy
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[B]
As [A] except
(1)Make virtual drive 100 MB (Note: no option to refuse a drive here)
(2)Choose "CDROM disabled"
(3)In VMWare window, click "Settings" -> Config Editor -> +IDE Drives
-> P-M Virtual Disk -> Remove -> Save
Now
Put SuSE boot floppy in drive -> Power On -> F2 during BIOS
Check: Legacy Diskette A present,
P Master /P Slave/Sec Master/Sec Slave all "NONE"
System Memory 640 KB
Extended memory 15360 KB
[just like the good old days]
F10 & continue boot
-> It boots from floppy!
So it seems to work each way round. I noticed that if you actually delete
~/vmware/dos.dsk then you have to go into the Wizard thing again, i.e.
start over; you can't power on. It seems you must accept some initial hard
drive setup in the VMWare config, even if you "Remove" it later (see (3)
above; this doesn't delete the virtual drive file -- it simply sets the
line "ide0:0.present = FALSE" in ~/vmware/dos/dos.cfg).
I dunno. I'm not having problems booting with the floppy, it seems,
and I'm not getting any more clues as to why you can't.
Good luck anyway.
Ted.
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