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