.ISOs??? Bootdisks? How??? - VMWARE
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Married white male, desperately seeking advice for how to install Windows ME and Windows 98 from MSDN CDs that won't boot. They have bad boot images or something. Old school MSDN CDs have never been bootable and they fixed it by going ISO. The trouble is I don't have ISOs for 98 or ME. How do I get these things installed into VMWare Workstation 6.0? I'm totally stumped. Does anyone know where current MSDN subscribers can get ISOs of legacy platforms? I have licenses and keys and everything else I just cannot get the CDs to be bootable... Ideas?
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Married white male, desperately seeking advice for how to install Windows ME and Windows 98 from MSDN CDs that won't boot. They have bad boot images or something. Old school MSDN CDs have never been bootable and they fixed it by going ISO. The trouble is I don't have ISOs for 98 or ME. How do I get these things installed into VMWare Workstation 6.0? I'm totally stumped. Does anyone know where current MSDN subscribers can get ISOs of legacy platforms? I have licenses and keys and everything else I just cannot get the CDs to be bootable... Ideas?
Did a 98 boot disk a few years ago from an msdn iso but for the life of me I cannot remember all of the steps other than it was a true pain. I used a web site that had instructions bootdisk.com best of luck. If you were a little more local to me I would just let you have one of my old cd's I hope I am done with Windows 98.
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Married white male, desperately seeking advice for how to install Windows ME and Windows 98 from MSDN CDs that won't boot. They have bad boot images or something. Old school MSDN CDs have never been bootable and they fixed it by going ISO. The trouble is I don't have ISOs for 98 or ME. How do I get these things installed into VMWare Workstation 6.0? I'm totally stumped. Does anyone know where current MSDN subscribers can get ISOs of legacy platforms? I have licenses and keys and everything else I just cannot get the CDs to be bootable... Ideas?
This is what I did back in the days when I used a physical machine for testing: 1. Make a bootable DOS disk on another 9x machine. 2. Boot the test machine from that disk. 3. Partition and format the HD. Make sure the C: partition is bootable (
format C: /s). 4. Copy the Win 9x install CABs from the CD to a directory on the HD. I usually called itC:\win9x.ins5. copy smartdrv.exe to the HD. 6. Reboot from the HD, run smartdrv.exe (trust me, you'll need it), then runC:\win9x.ins\setup.exe /is(/isskips the scandisk check). Hopefully this will be of some help when using a VM as well.--Mike-- Visual C++ MVP :cool: LINKS~! Ericahist | PimpFish | CP SearchBar v3.0 | C++ Forum FAQ Dunder-Mifflin, this is Pam.
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Married white male, desperately seeking advice for how to install Windows ME and Windows 98 from MSDN CDs that won't boot. They have bad boot images or something. Old school MSDN CDs have never been bootable and they fixed it by going ISO. The trouble is I don't have ISOs for 98 or ME. How do I get these things installed into VMWare Workstation 6.0? I'm totally stumped. Does anyone know where current MSDN subscribers can get ISOs of legacy platforms? I have licenses and keys and everything else I just cannot get the CDs to be bootable... Ideas?
If you have a w98 install cd then look if there's a folder named \tools\MTSUTIL\FAT32EBD. In that folder you find a litte tool for copying an boot-image to a floppy disk, and you'll also find the boot image (IMAGE.DSK) that you may be able to mount directly in your VM server (else try rename it to .img before you begin looking for winimage or other floppy disk image tools to help you). If that file isn't included on your source media then you could do a google search on "windows 98 boot floppy" and you'll find some places where you can download (floppy) boot disk images for any MS OS ever released. Mount the floppy image and the cd-drive in your vm app and you should be able to get things going. FYI if you want to waste time making a bootable cd then you need an app for creating such a thing. I have tried MagicISO (maybe the trial is crippled I can't remember) a few years back, and most recently I've used a little MS tool called OSCDIMG.EXE which is part of the XP OEM Preinstallaion kit[^]. Rdunzl
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Married white male, desperately seeking advice for how to install Windows ME and Windows 98 from MSDN CDs that won't boot. They have bad boot images or something. Old school MSDN CDs have never been bootable and they fixed it by going ISO. The trouble is I don't have ISOs for 98 or ME. How do I get these things installed into VMWare Workstation 6.0? I'm totally stumped. Does anyone know where current MSDN subscribers can get ISOs of legacy platforms? I have licenses and keys and everything else I just cannot get the CDs to be bootable... Ideas?
http://www.bootdisk.com/[^]? Looks like that's a program that writes to a floppy disk, which isn't much use if you don't have a floppy drive, though! If you need to, you'll have to create a virtual floppy disk and mount it in a working VM (I just tried this with XP running under Virtual PC 2007) and run the program from there.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
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http://www.bootdisk.com/[^]? Looks like that's a program that writes to a floppy disk, which isn't much use if you don't have a floppy drive, though! If you need to, you'll have to create a virtual floppy disk and mount it in a working VM (I just tried this with XP running under Virtual PC 2007) and run the program from there.
Stability. What an interesting concept. -- Chris Maunder
Mike Dimmick wrote:
That is a good site. I've used it plently of times in the past :-D
"The clue train passed his station without stopping." - John Simmons / outlaw programmer
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Married white male, desperately seeking advice for how to install Windows ME and Windows 98 from MSDN CDs that won't boot. They have bad boot images or something. Old school MSDN CDs have never been bootable and they fixed it by going ISO. The trouble is I don't have ISOs for 98 or ME. How do I get these things installed into VMWare Workstation 6.0? I'm totally stumped. Does anyone know where current MSDN subscribers can get ISOs of legacy platforms? I have licenses and keys and everything else I just cannot get the CDs to be bootable... Ideas?
I use VirtualPC, so my answer may or may not be applicable to VMWare. Option 1: Search the internet for bootdisks. I'm certain the WinME bootdisk includes CDROM drivers. http://www.bootdisk.com/bootdisk.htm[^] Option 2: Create a new Virtual HD. Attach the HD to another VM that you have already set up. Start that VM, insert/mount the Win9x ISO, copy the files to the new Virtual HD. Save changes. Remove the HD from that VM. Attach the HD to your new Win9x VM. Insert a boot disk (any boot disk will work that gets you do a dos prompt). Start the VM, navigate to the folder on the HD where you copied the files to, and run setup.
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Married white male, desperately seeking advice for how to install Windows ME and Windows 98 from MSDN CDs that won't boot. They have bad boot images or something. Old school MSDN CDs have never been bootable and they fixed it by going ISO. The trouble is I don't have ISOs for 98 or ME. How do I get these things installed into VMWare Workstation 6.0? I'm totally stumped. Does anyone know where current MSDN subscribers can get ISOs of legacy platforms? I have licenses and keys and everything else I just cannot get the CDs to be bootable... Ideas?