linux VMware w W98 SE in vm

Lennart Sorensen lsorense-1wCw9BSqJbv44Nm34jS7GywD8/FfD2ys at public.gmane.org
Mon Jan 12 20:16:24 UTC 2004


On Mon, Jan 12, 2004 at 06:45:23AM -0500, Chris Aitken wrote:
> Yes, I play CDs from it, just installed rh7.3 from it...
> 
> The installation starts OK, but then I get the error that there is no
> bootable CD or floppy (and both are present). Other times the installation
> goes a little further (I even managed an fdisk to create the virtual C: drive
> this morning) and I get the 'you need  7340032 bytes available on your C:
> drive' (where this 'C: drive is inreality I don't know, but my 1GB  /  is
> only 11% used).

How large did you make the vmware disk that you are trying to install
win98 on?  I would think 500MB would be about the smallest you could get
away with.

Lennart Sorensen
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