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Can I used floppy disk image (.flp) or CD image file (.ISO) to boot the VM?

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Min Hsieh

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Apr 5, 2002, 2:58:41 PM4/5/02
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Hi, All,

Can VMWare 3.0 allow me to boot a newly created virutal machine by using
floppy disk image (.flp) or CD image (.iso)? I've tried couple of time but
it still doesn't work.

My situation is like this. I have a Sony SRX77 laptop. There is no floppy
disk and it is running Windows XP home edition. I want to install VMWare on
it and run some 16-bit applications. My WinMe CD is bootable on my desktop
computer but it won't boot on the laptop's PCMCIA card CDROM drive. What I
want to do is to use a floppy disk image to boot the new virtual machine and
install Windows Me from the CD ISO image.

I check my configuration based on the previous posts. Now,
1) The floppy disk is configured to use disk image which is the image of a
bootable WinMe startup disk.
2) The floppy disk is "connected".
3) The floppy disk is "connect when power on".

Has anyone done this before?

Thanks so much in advance.
Min


Petr Vandrovec

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Apr 5, 2002, 3:29:42 PM4/5/02
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Min Hsieh wrote:
>
> Hi, All,
>
> Can VMWare 3.0 allow me to boot a newly created virutal machine by using
> floppy disk image (.flp) or CD image (.iso)? I've tried couple of time but
> it still doesn't work.
>
> I check my configuration based on the previous posts. Now,
> 1) The floppy disk is configured to use disk image which is the image of a
> bootable WinMe startup disk.
> 2) The floppy disk is "connected".
> 3) The floppy disk is "connect when power on".

.flp should work. Do you have guest configured to boot from floppy? If WinMe
complains about unreadable sectors, try upgrading to VMware 3.1.
Petr

Min Hsieh

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Apr 8, 2002, 12:27:29 PM4/8/02
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Thanks for the reply.

I tried all the possible way to bring the VM up. Here is what I found:

1. My platform is Sony SRX77 + XP Home Edition.
2. The target guest system is Win Me.
3. VM took extreme long time to boot from the floppy disk then report a
"PANIC" message and crashed. (the funny part is, this didn't happen on my
desktop computer).
4. I created an ISO image from my WinMe(bootable) disk. Still no good luck
here.

I switched to Virtual PC 4.2. Everything works fine and smoothly. Guess I'll
stick to that.

Min
:)

Al Gore

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Jul 9, 2002, 2:20:28 AM7/9/02
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I've booted from 1.44 meg images, 2.88 megs fail constantly.
What did you use to create image?
I run Linux and just dd a blank file, or dos boot floppy to file.
It could be the non standard image size MS uses, make a plain MSDOS
boot disk, or use a linux kernel image availible everywhere fine
computers are running.
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