linux VMware w W98 SE in vm

[Chris Aitken]

Taavi Burns wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 07:22:45AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> > I don't know if pointing the cdrom to the installation file on the cdrom
> > constitutes "creating an ISO image file from the installation CD-ROM". I did a web
> > search on a definiition for ISO image file and only got one in German.
>
> It absolutely does not.
>
> dd if=/dev/hdc of=win98se.iso bs=64k
>
> where /dev/hdc is your CDROM device, then point VMWare at win92se.iso.

OK, thanks. I made an image file for the CD-ROM:

> [lsf-5jgDBJOV2nY at public.gmane.org lsf]$ dd if=/dev/cdrom of=win98se.iso bs=64k
> 10017+1 records in
> 10017+1 records out

I also made one for the floppy, since the installation keeps looking to the floppy
drive and finding nothing:

[lsf-5jgDBJOV2nY at public.gmane.org lsf]$ dd if=/dev/fd0 of=win98seflp.iso
2880+0 records in
2880+0 records out

And I had the CD-ROM and floppy drives in Virtual Machine Control Panel point to these
ISOs.

Still I get,

*** VMware Workstation internal monitor error ***
VM attempting to execute in undefined memory.

Please report this problem by selecting menu item Help > VMware on the Web >
Request Support, or by going to the Web page
"
http://www.vmware.com/info?id=8&sn=6860A%2dEQ1Y6%2dAN1CJ%2d4K3LJ&logFile=%2fhome%2flsf%2fwin98%2d1%2fvmware%2elog&coreLocation=%2fhome%2flsf%2fwin98%2d1%2fvmware%2dcore%2egz

".
Please provide us with the log file (/home/lsf/win98-1/vmware.log) and the core
file (/home/lsf/win98-1/vmware-core.gz).
If the problem is repeatable, please set 'Logging level' to 'Debug' in the Misc
panel of the configuration editor. Then reproduce the incident and file it
according to the instructions.
We will respond on the basis of your support entitlement.
We appreciate your feedback,
  -- the VMware Workstation team.

I'm thinking now that I have two, concomitant, problems: 1. hardware that VMware
doesn't like (hence the need for image files), and 2. this internal monitor / undefined
memory error for which I don't know how long I'll have to wait to hear  from VMware
support.

Chris

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