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Im trying to install 98 on VPC, now im guessing i need a floppy to start the cd up, but my laptop aint got a floppy drive so how do i go about it? Cheers

Mick

 

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Again, no experience with VPC, but in VMWare you can mount a floppy image in a virtual floppy drive. Can you do anything like that with VPC?

 

As baba said you can create a virtual floppy image.

 

in your virtual machine, click on Floppy, then capture image. and double check your boot order in the BIOS

 

What program would ya reccomend to make a floppy image file with? I tried doing one in nero but it came out to big and VPC wouldnt accept it coz of the size.

Mick

 

Do ya mean boot order on VPC and if so how, if ya on about boot order on laptop, i havent got floppy drive. Cheers

 

click on delete or what ever it is to access the bios. if you selected capture image from floppy then the a: will pick up in the bios

 

Im trying to install upgrade as i havent got a normal version. Managed to boot from floppy, created an img with poweriso. Cant get the cd to install now though, keeps telling me ive got an NTFS partition when its definately FAT32. I know this is meant to simulate the pc but i never had this much hassle with a real one lol.

Mick

 

the error within the VM machine is saying that you have a NTFS drive? strange

 

ok ive got it sorted, just took a bit getting my head round it. I had to use FDISK and then format c. Thought if i formatted c, i would wipe me OS, but im guessing that is my virtual drive that it does, so its sorted. Cheers

Mick

 

LOL! Glad your getting the concept of Virtual Machines...